Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755873AbYCZEgf (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:36:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753184AbYCZEgL (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:36:11 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39544 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752623AbYCZEgJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:36:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080325.213602.193698359.davem@davemloft.net> To: jsm@fc.hp.com Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <47E9CE00.7060106@fc.hp.com> References: <87lk465mks.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> <47E9CE00.7060106@fc.hp.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: 643 Lines: 14 From: John Marvin Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:16:00 -0600 > 1) There was no easy way of determining what size the long format vhpt cache > should be automatically, and changing it dynamically would be too painful. > Different workloads performed better with different size vhpt caches. This is exactly what sparc64 does btw, dynamic TLB miss hash table sizing based upon task RSS -- 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/