Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:06:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/9] actual generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure |
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Note that the default pagesize on IA64 is 16K and some important things > > would change if a lesser size is selected. I have never run a 4K kernel. > > I do not think we can just say that 4KB is okay. There may be other > > platforms that have other default page sizes. > > If we can't just say that it is OK, then we should probably disable it > in Kconfig. Should we do that?
Well, we cannot disable 4K support for all platforms, so I guess this refers only to IA64.
IA64 can certainly be build with 4K support. I am not sure how well user space tools play with it. Better leave it selectable unless others on linux-ia64 have something to say on the issue.
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