On 10/9/06, Paul Durrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/9/06, Holger Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Project proposal: 64k kernel project
>
> I propose a 64k kernel project. This project should contribute and
> support on an on-going basis:
>
> - A SPARC kernel which uses 64k pages instead of 8k pages ("dwarf
> pages") as default page size. The system should no longer use or
> support the usage of 8k pages

How would this work with network I/O? Do the IOMMUs support 64k pages?

AFAIK yes

Do you really want to expose a 64k chunk of memory to IO just to DMA
in a single ethernet packet?

These are static buffers. We know that *some* memory gets wasted but
the amount should be limited

Holger
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