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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 07:31:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545A42C4.6070908@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALLJCT0fofgUaswpzt1iBqGS1u+fR8L=umwGpV=RG0SvO9TOJA@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/05/2014 07:21 AM, Masanari Iida wrote:
> Luiz, Dave,
> Thanks for comments.
> 
> I understand that there are some exception cases which doesn't support 1G
> large pages on newer CPUs.
> I like Dave's example, at the same time I would like to add "pdpe1gb flag" in
> the document.
> 
> For example, x86 CPUs normally support 4K and 2M (1G if pdpe1gb flag exist).

Is 1G supported on CPUs that have pdpe1gb and are running a 32-bit kernel?

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 07:31:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545A42C4.6070908@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALLJCT0fofgUaswpzt1iBqGS1u+fR8L=umwGpV=RG0SvO9TOJA@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/05/2014 07:21 AM, Masanari Iida wrote:
> Luiz, Dave,
> Thanks for comments.
> 
> I understand that there are some exception cases which doesn't support 1G
> large pages on newer CPUs.
> I like Dave's example, at the same time I would like to add "pdpe1gb flag" in
> the document.
> 
> For example, x86 CPUs normally support 4K and 2M (1G if pdpe1gb flag exist).

Is 1G supported on CPUs that have pdpe1gb and are running a 32-bit kernel?


  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-31 16:01 [PATCH] Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information Masanari Iida
2014-10-31 16:01 ` Masanari Iida
2014-11-03 14:24 ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-03 14:24   ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-03 18:18 ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-03 18:18   ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-05 15:21   ` Masanari Iida
2014-11-05 15:21     ` Masanari Iida
2014-11-05 15:31     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-11-05 15:31       ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-05 22:58       ` Andi Kleen
2014-11-05 22:58         ` Andi Kleen
2014-11-05 23:07         ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-05 23:07           ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-06 15:31           ` [PATCH/v2] " Masanari Iida
2014-11-06 15:31             ` Masanari Iida
2014-11-06 16:40             ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-06 16:40               ` Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-06 20:15             ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-11-06 20:15               ` Jonathan Corbet

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