Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?

Rik van Riel
2002-05-22T18:33:09Z

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> don't want to upgrade your CPU's, it's a _whole_ lot easier to just have a
> magic "map_large_page()" system call, and start using the 2MB page support
> of the x86.
>
> And no, this should NOT be a mmap.
>
> It's a magic x86-only system call,

> Making the _generic_ code jump through hoops because some stupid special
> case that nobody else is interested in is bad.

Actually, I suspect that MIPS, x86-64 and other
architectures are also interested ...

kind regards,

Rik
--
Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".

http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/