From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:20:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041116112022.67be2377.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2315.1100630906@redhat.com>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> Do you have any objection to compound pages being made mandatory, even without
> HUGETLB support?
>
Andrea wants to do that, purely from a code coverage point of view. But it
does add a little extra overhead.
For what reason do you propose this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-16 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-16 18:48 [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory David Howells
2004-11-16 19:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-16 19:41 ` David Howells
2004-11-17 1:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-17 2:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17 3:13 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17 3:22 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17 3:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17 3:42 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17 3:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-17 12:03 ` David Howells
2004-11-17 11:47 ` David Howells
2004-11-17 11:43 ` David Howells
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