Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757159AbYCYEPn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:15:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756759AbYCYEPe (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:15:34 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47458 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756746AbYCYEPd (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:15:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080324.211532.33163290.davem@davemloft.net> To: paulus@samba.org Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <18408.29107.709577.374424@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20080324.133722.38645342.davem@davemloft.net> <18408.29107.709577.374424@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> 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: 560 Lines: 13 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:29:55 +1100 > The performance advantage of using hardware 64k pages is pretty > compelling, on a wide range of programs, and particularly on HPC apps. Please read the rest of my responses in this thread, you can have your HPC cake and eat it too. -- 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/