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Re: large page patch

To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: large page patch
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 22:20:53 -0700 (PDT)
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Sender: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>

   
   In my opinion the proposed large-page patch addresses a relatively
   pressing need for databases (primarily).

Databases want large pages with IPC_SHM, how can this special
syscal hack address that?

It's great for experimentation, but give up syscall slots for
this?
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