* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > there is just a _small handful_ of 2MB pages. Seriously. On a machine with 8 > GB of RAM, and three quarters of it free, and there is just a couple of > contiguous 2MB regions. Note, that's _MB_, not GB. > > And don't tell me that these things are easy to fix. Don't tell me that the > current VM is quite clean and can be harmlessly extended to deal with this > all. Just don't. Not when we currently have a totally unexplained regression > in the VM from the last scalability thing we did. I think those are very real worries. The only point i wanted to make is that the numbers are real as well and go beyond what i saw characterised in the first email. (It might still not be enough to tip the scale in the direction of 'we really want to do this' though.) Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>