On Fri Sep 16 11:31:58 EDT 2011, [email protected] wrote: > I agree, but I think it's ok if we use them only if we have them, and rely on > just 2M otherwise. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:28 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM, erik quanstrom > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> please don't make it required. there's already array of page sizes per > >> mach. > > > > sorry, but time moves forward. We need the 1G pages for user mode > > anyway -- so the fact that you can run on older machines is a happy > > coincidence but it will die the first time you run a process that uses > > more than 1G. Reducing PTE count by 512 is a not insignificant cost. I > > expect to put the 1G pages for the kernel map back in in the next > > while.
i would hate to have dogmatic rules like this limit cooperation. i'm really excited about nix. please don't kill the buzz off so quickly. - erik
