linux-kernel - Re: larger default page sizes...

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Message-Id: <20080325.173146.238342309.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:31:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peterc@...ato.unsw.edu.au
Cc:	clameter@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	ianw@...ato.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: larger default page sizes...

From: Peter Chubb <peterc@...ato.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:25:58 +1100

> That depends on the access pattern.

Absolutely.

FWIW, I bet it helps enormously for gcc which, even for
small compiles, swims around chaotically in an 8MB pool
of GC'd memory.
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