"Roland" == Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roland> Bart Smaalders wrote: >> Roland Mainz wrote: >> > The goal would to have _everything_ use 64k pages by default (instead of >> > 8k pages) to squish the last bits of performace out of a system >> > (primarily HPC configurations with lots of memory[1]), including that >> > bits such as "tmpfs", |getpagesize()|/|sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)| make use >> > of 64k pages (or better: The hardcoded PAGESIZE=8k stuff should be >> > replaced by PAGESIZE=tuneable) ... >> > >> > [1]=Yes, I know... some hardware like the original UltraSPARC-3 and >> > SPARC64 CPUs won't like that much... >> >> We tried in during Solaris 10 development...
Roland> Was this project integrated into Solaris 10 ? Nope, the solutions to the problems encountered had the potential to break binary compatibility. -- Dave Marquardt Sun Microsystems, Inc. Austin, TX +1 512 366-9085 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
