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Re: large page patch
- To: Ryan Cumming <ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org>
- Subject: Re: large page patch
- From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:52:19 -0300 (BRT)
- cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, <davidm@hpl.hp.com>,<davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>, <gh@us.ibm.com>, <akpm@zip.com.au>,<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,<rohit.seth@intel.com>, <sunil.saxena@intel.com>,<asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
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- Sender: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> On August 2, 2002 01:20, David S. Miller wrote:
> > A "hint" to use superpages? That's absurd.
>
> What about applications that want fine-grained page aging? 4MB is a tad
> on the course side for most desktop applications.
Of course we wouldn't want to use superpages for VMAs smaller
than, say, 4 of these superpages.
That would fix this problem automagically.
regards,
Rik
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