From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.com>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>,
Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI...
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:07:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E46057.6000506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874owr8ztm.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> You absolutely do _not_ want to manage memory in 16kB chunks (or 64kB for
>> your example!).
>>
>
> AFAIK at least for user visible anonymous memory Windows uses 64k
> chunks. At least that is what Cygwin's mmap exposes. I don't know
> if it does the same for disk cache.
>
I think that's just the region address and size granularity (as in
vmas). For paging they still use the mmu page size.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090412091228.GA29937@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 15:14 ` Implementing NVMHCI Szabolcs Szakacsits
2009-04-12 15:20 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-12 16:15 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 6:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-13 15:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 15:38 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 10:07 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-14 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 10:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-14 10:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 11:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-14 11:58 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2009-04-17 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-14 12:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 12:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-25 8:26 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-12 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 17:02 ` Robert Hancock
2009-04-12 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 18:35 ` Robert Hancock
2009-04-13 11:18 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:23 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <6934efce0904141052j3d4f87cey9fc4b802303aa73b@mail.gmail.com>
2009-04-15 6:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-30 22:51 ` Jörn Engel
2009-04-30 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 17:33 Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 19:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-11 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-11 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 21:49 ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-11 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 5:08 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-04-11 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-11 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-12 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 1:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-12 1:15 ` david
2009-04-12 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 14:23 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-12 17:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 19:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 21:08 ` John Stoffel
2009-04-11 21:31 ` John Stoffel
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