From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:38:32 -0700 Received: from u-237.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.18.237]:45069 "EHLO u-237.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:38:22 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:38:04 +0200 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:38:04 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jun Sun , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 16K page size? Message-ID: <20001018033804.E7865@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <39ED40B4.EEB5F444@mvista.com> <20001018033002.D7865@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001018033002.D7865@bacchus.dhis.org>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:30:02AM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:30:02AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Most applications probably use the getpagesize() function, so they should > be fine. libc itself should also be clean. > > In the kernel we don't handle this properly yet. There are also some > optimizations which are possible for larger page sizes. IA64 already > has a larger pagesize than Intel, so I hope they have already solve ^^^^^ i386 > most of the problems for us. Ralf