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Message-ID: <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843ECE5B88C@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:25:11 -0700 From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> To: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <clameter@....com> Cc: <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>, <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: RE: larger default page sizes... > The memory wastage is just rediculious. In an ideal world we'd have variable sized pages ... but since most arcthitectures have no h/w support for these it may be a long time before that comes to Linux. In a fixed page size world the right page size to use depends on the workload and the capacity of the system. When memory capacity is measured in hundreds of GB, then a larger page size doesn't look so ridiculous. -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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