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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:15:32 +0000
Subject: Re: larger default page sizes...
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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:29:55 +1100

> The performance advantage of using hardware 64k pages is pretty
> compelling, on a wide range of programs, and particularly on HPC apps.

Please read the rest of my responses in this thread, you
can have your HPC cake and eat it too.