From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Page size
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:21:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005411@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005409@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:50:13 -0700, Michael Madore <mmadore@turbolinux.com> said:
Mike> Someone asked me the followind two questions, and I wanted to
Mike> verify before I gave an answer:
Mike> Is page size tunable at run time, and can the page size be
Mike> determined at run time.
Mike> I was under the impression that page size was a build time
Mike> parameter.
Don already answered the question as far as the status quo is
concerned.
As for the future: I'd like to start playing with superpage support
fairly soon (once I get some spare time on my hands... ;-). With
superpages, physically contiguous regions of memory could be mapped
with a single TLB entry, giving you most of the benefit of (very)
large page sizes.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-16 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-16 19:50 [Linux-ia64] Page size Michael Madore
2001-04-16 20:16 ` Don Dugger
2001-04-16 22:21 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2001-04-16 22:24 ` Donny Cooper
2001-04-16 22:51 ` Don Dugger
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