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SubjectRe: [PATCH] microblaze: Remove noMMU code
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 1:14 PM Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
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> And second part. I know I removed that Kconfig macros for it but maybe
> good to talk about what needs to change to support different page size
> for systems with MMU.

I would recommend just leaving it hardwired to 4K. The benefits of larger
pages are rather questionable, especially on systems without tons of
RAM, and it's an endless source of problems.

The commit that added the option, ba9c4f88d747 ("microblaze: Allow
PAGE_SIZE configuration"), was rather nebulous with "can improve
performance on some workloads".

On PowerPC, the benefits of larger pages are mainly for the hashed
page table code, which I don't think exists anywhere else.

Arnd

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