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From: Ryan Cumming <ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, davidm@hpl.hp.com,
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Subject: Re: large page patch
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On August 2, 2002 01:20, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
>    Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:26:07 -0700
>
>    I'm a bit concerned about this, too.  My preference would have been to
>    use the regular mmap() and shmat() syscalls with some
>    augmentation/hint as to what the preferred page size is (Simon
>    Winwood's OLS 2002 paper talks about some options here).  I like this
>    because hints could be useful even with a transparent superpage
>    scheme.
>
> A "hint" to use superpages?  That's absurd.

What about applications that want fine-grained page aging? 4MB is a tad on the 
course side for most desktop applications.

-Ryan
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