On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:31:48 -0600, Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Robin> Is there a strong objection to implementing 4 levels of 16k Robin> page tables for now and then, if someone else sees a need, Robin> convert to using long page table format and adjust page Robin> tables as needed at that point in time.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:46:21AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > I certainly don't want to switch my machines to 4-levels. There is > zero need for that on the machines I use, so why pay the overhead of > an extra level? > BTW: why do you want 4-level/16KB over 3-level/64KB? It may be worth noticing that things like fault latency and small writes degrade with increased pagesize, though I seem to recall hearing that this effect was less pronounced or did not set in at 64KB on ia64. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
