Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE)

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From: Matt Mackall
Date: Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 10:53 am

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:26:51AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

Original? This was done on VAXen and in Mach ages ago.

On Linux, there've already been two implementations, one by Hugh
Dickens and an expanded version by Bill Irwin (presented at OLS in
2003).

Bill's patch was notable for going to heroic efforts to maintain
binary compatibility, basically separating the userspace notion of the
ABI's page size from the kernel's. How's your version fair here?

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RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Fri Jul 6, 3:26 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Dave Hansen, (Fri Jul 6, 4:33 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Fri Jul 6, 4:52 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Badari Pulavarty, (Fri Jul 6, 6:36 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Badari Pulavarty, (Fri Jul 6, 6:47 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Paul Mackerras, (Sat Jul 7, 12:01 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Sat Jul 7, 3:12 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Sat Jul 7, 3:25 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 7, 11:53 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Rik van Riel, (Sat Jul 7, 1:34 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Sun Jul 8, 2:52 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), David Chinner, (Sun Jul 8, 4:20 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Tue Jul 10, 3:11 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), David Chinner, (Wed Jul 11, 5:12 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Thu Jul 12, 4:14 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), David Chinner, (Thu Jul 12, 7:44 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Thu Jul 12, 9:31 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Dave Hansen, (Thu Jul 12, 9:34 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Matt Mackall, (Thu Jul 12, 10:53 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Thu Jul 12, 6:06 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), David Chinner, (Fri Jul 13, 12:13 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Dave Kleikamp, (Fri Jul 13, 7:08 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Fri Jul 13, 7:31 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), David Chinner, (Sun Jul 15, 5:27 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), William Lee Irwin III, (Tue Jul 17, 10:47 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Tue Jul 17, 12:33 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), William Lee Irwin III, (Wed Jul 18, 6:32 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 18, 9:34 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Wed Jul 18, 4:50 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 18, 5:53 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Tue Jul 24, 12:44 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), William Lee Irwin III, (Tue Jul 24, 8:20 pm)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), Andrea Arcangeli, (Wed Jul 25, 7:39 am)
Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE), William Lee Irwin III, (Wed Jul 25, 10:56 am)