From: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Sandeep Kumar" <sandeepksinha@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shaggy@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:55:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12c511ca0609191555q2bfb934aha4cfc0068c1ccd9a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609191136580.6460@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On 9/19/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> IA64 has supported 64k page size from the beginning. Since some
> years before the end of the last decade. It is only the hardware
> limitations on IA32 that hold us back.
But memory usage with a 64K page size can get out of hand (especially
if you have an application that uses a lot of small files). Dave Kleikamp's
tail pages would help make 64K page size more generally palatable.
-Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-15 8:50 Sandeep Kumar
2006-09-15 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-09-15 12:34 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-09-19 18:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-19 22:55 ` Tony Luck [this message]
2006-09-20 4:29 ` Christoph Lameter
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