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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:21:29 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE
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Yuri Tikhonov writes:

> The following patch adds support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x-based boards. 
> The applications to be run on the kernel with 256KB PAGE_SIZE have to be 
> built using the modified version of binutils, where the MAXPAGESIZE 
> definition is set to 0x40000 (as opposite to standard 0x10000).

Have you measured the performance using a 64kB page size?  If so, how
does it compare with the 256kB page size?

The 64kB page size has the attraction that no binutils changes are
required.

Paul.