On 6/30/06, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Mauricio Anyway, does anyone read (maybe you too, mauricio) in LWN (June 22th release) that Linux kernel will employ transparent huge page size? Something like HugeTLB but the size is dynamic according to current VM condition? Sounds like buddy algorithm to me. Also, I do wonder, can we set page size on per page basis? I always think page size is set globally...
The page size is highly architecture dependent. For eg. X86 only support 4k, 2M and 4M pages only and its size is set globally. But AFAIK we can mix 4M and 2M pages. Arbitary Per page page size is not supported by most archs. (i dont know any which does.). Most support multiple few page sizes. But anyway, I hope that implementation will make linux fater? :) regards Manish Regmi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
