Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755176AbYCXUhb (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:37:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752866AbYCXUhX (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:37:23 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37431 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805AbYCXUhX (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:37:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080324.133722.38645342.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20080321.145712.198736315.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 19 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:27:06 -0700 (PDT) > The move to 64k page size on IA64 is another way that this issue can > be addressed though. This is such a huge mistake I wish platforms such as powerpc and IA64 would not make such decisions so lightly. The memory wastage is just rediculious. I already see several distributions moving to 64K pages for powerpc, so I want to nip this in the bud before this monkey-see-monkey-do thing gets any more out of hand. -- 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/