Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:15:57 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:44:51 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:55:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Please address my point: if in five years time x86 has larger or varible > > pagesize, this code will be a permanent millstone around our necks which we > > *should not have merged*. > > And if in five years time x86 does not have larger pagesize support then > > the manufacturers would have decided that 4k pages are not a performance > > problem, so we again should not have merged this code. > > So the verdict is wait 5 years, see if x86 did anything, and so on.
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