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To: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
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Il 18/07/2013 16:32, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
>>>
>> (Mis)alignment and granularity can be handled later.  We can ignore them
>> for now.  Later, if we decide the best way to support them is a flag,
>> we'll add it.  Let's not put the cart before the horse.
>>
>> BTW, I expect alignment!=0 to be really, really rare.
> To explain my concerns:
> 
> I know that my target has internal page size of 15MB. I will check what
> happens
> if I deallocate this 15MB in chunks of lets say 1MB. If the page gets
> unprovisioned
> after the last chunk is unmapped it would be fine :-)

You're talking of granularity here, not (mis)alignment.

Paolo