From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161070AbVKDB5a (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:57:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161103AbVKDB5a (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:57:30 -0500 Received: from smtp202.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.92]:24925 "HELO smtp202.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161070AbVKDB53 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:57:29 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uTSTq8FmsOED8qOEnq2dMyrkguiwdssVZMynrsiq7MTPgKqylHf81QW8bKSB4Zfcmne69ikChT3k4fNC1xMyqFwDnCLk+Q5bYwGAVBMuHCwjsGgLR7iX0Yq8BicNc8DJGAmOiNlYedxWHC5Bzb75j41x8RwmE6k7U+04mH8nAqE= ; Message-ID: <436AC07D.2070602@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:59:25 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Linus Torvalds , "Martin J. Bligh" , Arjan van de Ven , Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lhms , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 References: <4366C559.5090504@yahoo.com.au> <1130856555.14475.77.camel@localhost><20051101150142.GA10636@elte.hu> <1130858580.14475.98.camel@localhost><20051102084946.GA3930@elte.hu> <436880B8.1050207@yahoo.com.au><1130923969.15627.11.camel@localhost> <43688B74.20002@yahoo.com.au><255360000.1130943722@[10.10.2.4]> <4369824E.2020407@yahoo.com.au> <306020000.1131032193@[10.10.2.4]> <1131032422.2839.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <309420000.1131036740@[10.10.2.4]> <311050000.1131040276@[10.10.2.4]> <1131040786.2839.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <312300000.1131041824@[10.1! 0.2.4]> <436AB241.2030403@yahoo.com.au> <436AB7CA.6060603@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Todays massive machines are tomorrows desktop. Weak comment, I know, but > it's happened before. > Oh I wouldn't bet against it. And if desktops of the future are using 100s of GB then they probably would be happy to use 64K pages as well. > >>Maybe the solution is to bloat the kernel sources enough to make >>64KB pages worthwhile? >> > Sorry this wasn't meant to be a dig at your patches - I guess it turned out that way though :\ But yes, if anybody is adding complexity or size to core code it obviously does need to be justified -- and by no means does this only apply to you. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com