Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:46:43 -0800

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:21, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> 16K is reasonable; after that one might as well go all the way.
>> About the only way to cope is amortizing it by cacheing zeroed pages,
>> and that has other downsides.

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:19:49AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Some of the lower end CPU's only have about 12-16K of L1. I don't think
> thats a big problem since those aren't going to be highmem or large
> memory users

It's an arch parameter, so they'd probably just
#define MMUPAGE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
Hugh's original patch did that for all non-i386 arches.

Bill
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