>>>>> "Arun" == Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> writes: Arun> On 8/25/2004 10:01 AM, Jesse Barnes wrote: >> On Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:34 pm, Ian Wienand wrote: >>> 11-lf-VHPT-kconfig.patch >> Given your conclusions in the paper, would it make sense to >> unconditionally switch to long format VHPT? It would simplify >> things a little and maybe avoid some trouble in the future. >> Arun> When the super page optimizations are implemented, long format Arun> might be a more attractive option. Without it, the increased Arun> cache footprint of the long format pte is not compensated by the Arun> benefits on the workloads we tried. I suggest that we do like we did for the large block device patch --- enable it unconditionally in the -mm and other test series, then flip back to a config option in mainline. That way, anyone using 2.6 for a production kernel gets a choice, and while we're in test phase, the patch gets a good workout. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Aug 25 19:25:54 2004
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