Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752087AbWISW4D (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:56:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752094AbWISW4D (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:56:03 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:33118 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752087AbWISW4B (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:56:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=J9KqF0d0PGw9yD7IOjSkh1miMwrlNRlVzpzSKYtYRCpAEgeKBAniRKJ92BYTdkzTCl1EHgB/zpsHDo7lGzPJgGkxnrg6BO8cJzdsZzQ6soH+4HhsCcCmbmFQrkUIMvNf/1Qf42EHyQWM3+BSHzhAfJpU+lhpKO5Zyi+lSv+ESGc= Message-ID: <12c511ca0609191555q2bfb934aha4cfc0068c1ccd9a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:55:58 -0700 From: "Tony Luck" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages Cc: "Sandeep Kumar" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shaggy@austin.ibm.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <37d33d830609150150v30dc32en57f8c5e43c30aef3@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b63fc36d3523d946 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 18 On 9/19/06, Christoph Lameter wrote: > IA64 has supported 64k page size from the beginning. Since some > years before the end of the last decade. It is only the hardware > limitations on IA32 that hold us back. But memory usage with a 64K page size can get out of hand (especially if you have an application that uses a lot of small files). Dave Kleikamp's tail pages would help make 64K page size more generally palatable. -Tony ---- New yarn store in Sunnyvale opens October 14th. http://www.purlescenceyarns.com - 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/