Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/9] actual generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure

Christoph Lameter
2006-08-31T18:06:31Z

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dave Hansen wrote:

> > Note that the default pagesize on IA64 is 16K and some important things
> > would change if a lesser size is selected. I have never run a 4K kernel.
> > I do not think we can just say that 4KB is okay. There may be other
> > platforms that have other default page sizes.
>
> If we can't just say that it is OK, then we should probably disable it
> in Kconfig. Should we do that?

Well, we cannot disable 4K support for all platforms, so I guess this
refers only to IA64.

IA64 can certainly be build with 4K support. I am not sure how well user
space tools play with it. Better leave it selectable unless others on
linux-ia64 have something to say on the issue.