From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:18:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:18:39 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:52681 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:18:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 22:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020805.220836.12920570.davem@redhat.com> To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com Cc: rohit.seth@intel.com, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, gh@us.ibm.com, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <15695.23644.912136.988590@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <15695.22556.128499.64377@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020805.215817.05805181.davem@redhat.com> <15695.23644.912136.988590@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:19:24 -0700 Sounds great if you have the hardware that can do it. Not too many CPUs I know of support it. Of course, and the fact that nobody has put it into silicon may be a suggestion of how useful the feature really is :-)