Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 11:48:00 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? |
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>> don't want to upgrade your CPU's, it's a _whole_ lot easier to just have a >> magic "map_large_page()" system call, and start using the 2MB page support >> of the x86. >> >> And no, this should NOT be a mmap. >> >> It's a magic x86-only system call, > >> Making the _generic_ code jump through hoops because some stupid special >> case that nobody else is interested in is bad. > > Actually, I suspect that MIPS, x86-64 and other > architectures are also interested ...
Indeed. Even if you happen to have a spare 10Gb of RAM, and can address it efficiently, that's still no reason to blow it on mindless copies of data ;-)
M.
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