From: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:33:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47547635.7040503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071203020648.GF26919@localhost.localdomain>
David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Jon Tollefson wrote:
>
>> This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of
>> the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of a 12
>> bit pte it would be 7 bit pmd and a 5 bit pte. The pgd and pud offsets
>> would continue as 9 bits and 7 bits respectively. This will allow the
>> pgtable to fit in one base page. This patch would have to be applied
>> after part 1.
>>
>
> Hrm.. shouldn't we just ban 64K hugepages on a 64K base page size
> setup? There's not a whole lot of point to it, after all...
>
Banning the base and huge page size from being the same size feels like
an artificial barrier. It is probably not the most massively useful
combination, but it shouldn't hurt performance.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 5:03 [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable Jon Tollefson
2007-12-03 2:06 ` David Gibson
2007-12-03 21:33 ` Jon Tollefson [this message]
2007-12-03 21:51 ` Chris Snook
2007-12-04 0:28 ` David Gibson
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