Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:53:11 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > In article <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0203171021090.2181-100000@imladris.surriel.com>, > > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > > > > >In other words, large pages should be a "special hack" for > > >special applications, like Oracle and maybe some scientific > > >calculations ? > > > > Yes, I think so.
> Couldn't we choose the page size depending on the map size ?
For on-disk files I guess this is better an mmap flag, but for shared memory segments we could try to do this automagically.
> If we start mixing page sizes, what about kernel code that assumes > PAGE_SIZE ?
We fix it.
Rik -- <insert bitkeeper endorsement here>
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