Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760835AbYCZAb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:31:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756927AbYCZAbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:31:51 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55083 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754334AbYCZAbu (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:31:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080325.173146.238342309.davem@davemloft.net> To: peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <87od925o15.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> References: <87tziu5q37.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> <20080325.164927.249210766.davem@davemloft.net> <87od925o15.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> 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: 510 Lines: 15 From: Peter Chubb Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:25:58 +1100 > That depends on the access pattern. Absolutely. FWIW, I bet it helps enormously for gcc which, even for small compiles, swims around chaotically in an 8MB pool of GC'd memory. -- 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/