Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756408Ab0LBCTM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 21:19:12 -0500 Received: from wdscspam3.wdc.com ([129.253.55.42]:5986 "EHLO wdscspam3.wdc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753502Ab0LBCTK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 21:19:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 562 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:19:10 EST X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,285,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="905328" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Change of Default kernel page size i.e 4KB Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:09:48 -0800 Message-ID: <25B374CC0D9DFB4698BB331F82CD0CF20D606B@wdscexbe08.sc.wdc.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Change of Default kernel page size i.e 4KB Thread-Index: AcuReGPOm1q1/vChT56sfhGpdB2ijwATDBfA References: <20101201132437.GA32555@linux-mips.org> From: "Daniel Taylor" To: "naveen yadav" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2010 02:09:48.0750 (UTC) FILETIME=[FF452EE0:01CB91C5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1305 Lines: 37 > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of naveen yadav > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:53 AM > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Change of Default kernel page size i.e 4KB > > Hi all, > > I have few drivers and very big application running on ARM > and MIPS target. > I want to check the performance by changing the page size ie. > 8K, 16K, 32K etc. > > Is it possile, If yes then what all care i need to take . > > thanks > -- > 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/ > For processor families that have Linux support for other-than-4K page sizes, you can use menuconfig to change the page size in "Kernel Options". This changes the configuration items: PPC_*_PAGES, SPARC64_PAGE_SIZE_*, (MIPS) PAGE_SIZE_*, IA64_PAGE_SIZE_*. -- 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/