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SubjectRe: [Tux3] Tux3 report: Tux3 Git tree available
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:24:33AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > That's interesting. Do you handle 1K block sizes with 64K page size? :)
>
> Not in its current incarnation. That would require 32 bytes worth of
> state while the current code just has a 4 byte map (4 bits X 8 blocks).
> I suppose a reasonable way to extend it would be 4 x 8 byte maps. Has
> somebody spotted a 64K page?

I believe SGI ship their ia64 kernels configured this way. Certainly
16k ia64 kernels are common, which would (if I understand your scheme
correctly) be 8 bytes worth of state in your scheme.

--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."


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