Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751142AbWITE3X (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:29:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751143AbWITE3X (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:29:23 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:65245 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142AbWITE3X (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:29:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:29:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Tony Luck cc: Sandeep Kumar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shaggy@austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages In-Reply-To: <12c511ca0609191555q2bfb934aha4cfc0068c1ccd9a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <37d33d830609150150v30dc32en57f8c5e43c30aef3@mail.gmail.com> <12c511ca0609191555q2bfb934aha4cfc0068c1ccd9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 14 On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tony Luck wrote: > 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. Sure but there is no need for something like that on IA32 since the hardware does not support more than 4k. - 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/