Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:09:33 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:03:58PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Iff we really the larger physical page size to support the hardware > > > then it makes sense to go down a path of larger pages. But it doesn't. > > > > You are redefining the problem. We need larger physical sizes to support > > the hardware. Yes. We can dodge the issue with shim layers and hacks. It > > is obvious from the kernel sources that this is needed. > > We definitely don't. Larger sizes are ONE way to solve the problem, they > are definitely not the only one. If the larger pages become unfeasible > for some reason (be it fragmentation, or just because the design isn't > good), then we can solve it differently.
Exactly. But the only counter-proposal we have so far seems far worse :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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