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

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Message-Id: <20080325.173928.67585726.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:39:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmosberger@...il.com
Cc:	peterc@...ato.unsw.edu.au, 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: "David Mosberger-Tang" <dmosberger@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:34:13 -0600

> Why not just repeat the PTEs for super-pages?

This is basically how we implement hugepages in the page
tables on sparc64.
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