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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] transparent hugepage support


From: Paul Brook
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] transparent hugepage support
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:41:56 +0000
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>My point is that there is no need to show the smaller page sizes to
>userland, only the max one is relevant and this isn't going to change
>and I'm uncomfortable to add plural stuff to a patch that doesn't
>contemplate mixes page sizes and for the time being multiple hpage size
>isn't even on the horizon... I hate APIs...

I don't care enough to continue arguing about the utility of multiple page 
sizes :-)

> What if we defer this whole issue and we just align on 2M if
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage exists without checking /sys? ;)

Doesn't non-PAE (i.e. most 32-bit x86) use 4M huge pages? There's still a good 
number of those knocking about.

Paul




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