Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

Chris Wedgwood
2002-03-17T02:50:48Z

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:05:04PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:57:11PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
wrote:

>
> What about 2M pages?

They are not supported for user space, but used in private
mappings for kernel text and direct memory mappings. Generic code
never sees them.

Is there any reason we couldn't use them for mapping large
frame-buffers and similar?

--cw