Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:04:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:04:20 -0500 Received: from lmail.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:55457 "EHLO lmail.actcom.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:04:19 -0500 Subject: RE: PAGE = 1k From: Gilad Ben-Yossef To: User & Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20021223165245.M26209@beta.bandnet.com.br> References: <20021223165245.M26209@beta.bandnet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 24 Dec 2002 00:12:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1040681542.5839.8.camel@gby.benyossef.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 33 On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 18:52, User & wrote: > yes i know ,it?s depend of hardware, but maybe we can do something as mmu > with software or something like this , i don?t know. No, but you can fake it ;-) I'm taking a wild guess here that you're interested in this subject because of distributed shared memory. That is, you're interested in smaller page sizes because you want to be aware of changes done to memory structures in sizes smaller then a page. If so, you might want to check out how the Millipede system from the Technion works - it basically creates several "views" of a page using segmentation and other MMU features which creates artifical locality of memory structures on the same page in units smaller then a hardware page. Hope this helps, Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef http://benyossef.com "Geeks rock bands cool name #8192: RAID against the machine" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/