Re: large page patch

[Ryan Cumming]

On August 2, 2002 01:20, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: David Mosberger <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:26:07 -0700
>
>    I'm a bit concerned about this, too.  My preference would have been to
>    use the regular mmap() and shmat() syscalls with some
>    augmentation/hint as to what the preferred page size is (Simon
>    Winwood's OLS 2002 paper talks about some options here).  I like this
>    because hints could be useful even with a transparent superpage
>    scheme.
>
> 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.

-Ryan