On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 15:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > We want the 100% case. > > > > Yes that is what we intend to do. Universal support for larger blocksize. > > I.e. your desktop filesystem will use 64k page size and server platforms > > likely much larger. > > With 64k pagesize the amount of memory required to hold a kernel tree (say) > will go from 270MB to 1400MB. This is not an optimisation. > > Several 64k pagesize people have already spent time looking at various > tail-packing schemes to get around this serious problem. And that's on > _server_ class machines. Large ones. I don't think > laptop/desktop/samll-server machines would want to go anywhere near this.
I'm one of the ones investigating 64 KB pagesize tail-packing schemes, and I believe Christoph's cleanups will reduce the intrusiveness and improve the readability of a tail-packing solution. I'll add my vote in support of these patches. Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
