From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:35:38 +0000 Subject: Re: HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option Message-Id: <16437.29306.947060.600300@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20040220010731.GA28820@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040220010731.GA28820@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:07:31 -0600, Jack Steiner said: Jack> Here is a preliminary version of a patch that makes the size Jack> of HUGEPAGES a boottime option. Only ia64-specific files are Jack> changed (except for the Documentation file). Jack> We have a number of customers using large Jack> pages. Unfortunately, the "optimum" size of a large page is Jack> application & configuration dependent. Rather that having each Jack> customer recompile to specify their own HUGEPAGESIZE, this Jack> patch make the size a boottime option. Jack> Does this patch look reasonable? If so, I will incorporate feedback, Jack> finish testing it, update it to 2.6.3 & resubmit. Looks neat to me. But, man, do lose that trailing whitespace! (especially in Kconfig---all 166 characters of it! ;-) Rohit? --david