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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:27:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040222052759.GA14666@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040220010731.GA28820@sgi.com>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:36:38AM -0800, Seth, Rohit wrote:

> Ken is currently in the process of providing the support for boot
> time configuration for huge page size.

What's wrong with Jack's patch?

> As long as there are only two supported page sizes (PAGE_SIZE and
> HPAGE_SIZE), it is possible to achieve the boot time configuration
> of HUGE_PAGE_SIZE without needing to patch the kernel (and possibly
> better packing the vhpt fault handler code).  We will ship the patch
> out to the list.

Jack's code doesn't have this limitation.  IMO it's a more sane way to
go.  Why should people be restricted to a limited set (two) of
hugepage sizes?  This seems especially important for vendor kernels
where people want to use the same kernel across a variety of different
machines.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-22  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-20  1:07 HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option Jack Steiner
2004-02-20  2:35 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-20  4:00 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-20 19:36 ` Seth, Rohit
2004-02-22  5:27 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-02-22 23:08 ` Jack Steiner
2004-02-23 16:19 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-23 16:26 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-23 18:52 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-23 18:58 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-24  4:05 ` Jack Steiner
2004-02-26  1:26 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-26  2:09 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-26  5:18 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-26 20:31 ` Chen, Kenneth W

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