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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:52:19 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: large page patch
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> On August 2, 2002 01:20, David S. Miller wrote:

> > 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.

Of course we wouldn't want to use superpages for VMAs smaller
than, say, 4 of these superpages.

That would fix this problem automagically.

regards,

Rik
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