From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:53:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070712175308.GW11166@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706222651.GG5777@v2.random>
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:26:51AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The original idea of having a software page size larger than a
> hardware page size, originated at SUSE by myself and Andi Kleen while
> helping AMD to design their amd64 cpu,
Original? This was done on VAXen and in Mach ages ago.
On Linux, there've already been two implementations, one by Hugh
Dickens and an expanded version by Bill Irwin (presented at OLS in
2003).
Bill's patch was notable for going to heroic efforts to maintain
binary compatibility, basically separating the userspace notion of the
ABI's page size from the kernel's. How's your version fair here?
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 22:26 RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE) Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-06 23:33 ` Dave Hansen
2007-07-06 23:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-17 17:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-07-17 19:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-18 13:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-07-18 16:34 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-18 23:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-19 0:53 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-24 19:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-25 3:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-07-25 14:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-25 17:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-07-07 1:36 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-07-07 1:47 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-07-07 10:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-07 7:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-07-07 10:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-07 18:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-07 20:34 ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-08 9:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-08 23:20 ` David Chinner
2007-07-10 10:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-12 0:12 ` David Chinner
2007-07-12 11:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-12 14:44 ` David Chinner
2007-07-12 16:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-12 16:34 ` Dave Hansen
2007-07-13 7:13 ` David Chinner
2007-07-13 14:08 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-13 14:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-16 0:27 ` David Chinner
2007-07-12 17:53 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-07-13 1:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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