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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:37:22 +0000
Subject: larger default page sizes...
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:27:06 -0700 (PDT)

> The move to 64k page size on IA64 is another way that this issue can
> be addressed though.

This is such a huge mistake I wish platforms such as powerpc and IA64
would not make such decisions so lightly.

The memory wastage is just rediculious.

I already see several distributions moving to 64K pages for powerpc,
so I want to nip this in the bud before this monkey-see-monkey-do
thing gets any more out of hand.