Re: [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 14:25:05 EST


David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> Do you have any objection to compound pages being made mandatory, even without
> HUGETLB support?
>

Andrea wants to do that, purely from a code coverage point of view. But it
does add a little extra overhead.

For what reason do you propose this?
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