Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

Nick Piggin
2005-11-04T01:59:25Z

Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Todays massive machines are tomorrows desktop. Weak comment, I know, but
> it's happened before.
>

Oh I wouldn't bet against it. And if desktops of the future are using
100s of GB then they probably would be happy to use 64K pages as well.

>
>>Maybe the solution is to bloat the kernel sources enough to make
>>64KB pages worthwhile?
>>
>

Sorry this wasn't meant to be a dig at your patches - I guess it turned
out that way though :\

But yes, if anybody is adding complexity or size to core code it
obviously does need to be justified -- and by no means does this only
apply to you.

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