Re: HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option

David Mosberger
2004-02-20T02:35:38Z

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:07:31 -0600, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> 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