From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Norman Gaywood <norm@turing.une.edu.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:46:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021207014643.GW9882@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039227589.25062.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:21, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> 16K is reasonable; after that one might as well go all the way.
>> About the only way to cope is amortizing it by cacheing zeroed pages,
>> and that has other downsides.
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:19:49AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Some of the lower end CPU's only have about 12-16K of L1. I don't think
> thats a big problem since those aren't going to be highmem or large
> memory users
It's an arch parameter, so they'd probably just
#define MMUPAGE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
Hugh's original patch did that for all non-i386 arches.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-07 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 0:13 Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0? Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 1:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 2:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 5:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 5:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:14 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:34 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 11:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-06 16:19 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 14:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 2:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 1:46 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-12-07 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 2:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 10:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 14:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-06 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <mailman.1039133948.27411.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-12-06 0:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-12-06 1:27 ` Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 12:48 ` Rik van Riel
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