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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 19:17:50 -0800 From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org> Subject: Re: Linux 3.19-rc3 On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > Big pages are a bad bad bad idea. They work fine for databases, and > that's pretty much just about it. I'm sure there are some other loads, > but they are few and far between. For HPC too. They tend not to do a lot of I/O (and when they do it is from a few big files). Then they just sit crunching over gigabytes of memory for seven and a half million years before doing: printf("Answer is %d\n", 42); -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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