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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:24:38 -0500
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 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?

I was wondering about this as well?  Isn't this technically in  
violation of the ABI?

- k