From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2381DDDE7 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:07:17 +1100 (EST) To: Yuri Tikhonov From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Support for big page sizes on 44x (Updated) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: References: <1224123753-20907-1-git-send-email-yanok@emcraft.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:06:50 +0100 Message-Id: <20081124230650.29594834B020@gemini.denx.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, pvr@emcraft.com, dzu@denx.de, Ilya Yanok List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dear Yuri & Ilya, In message Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Ilya Yanok wrote: > > These patches add support for selecting page size on PPC 44x. > > First one adds support for 16K/64K pages while second one adds support > > for 256K pages along with some hacks. > > Leaving 256K pages aside for now, do you plan to revise the 4/16/64K > page size patch for 2.6.29? KVM gets a huge performance boost from 64K > pages, so I'm anxious to see this go in. I've submitted a few > supporting patches for incidental problems caused by large pages, so I > think it's just down to this patch itself now. Can we please push this upstream with some priority? Thanks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de In any group of employed individuals the only naturally early riser is _always_ the office manager, who will _always_ leave reproachful little notes ... on the desks of their subordinates. - Terry Pratchett, _Lords and Ladies_