Re: larger default page sizes...

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 00:36:37 EST


From: John Marvin <jsm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:16:00 -0600

> 1) There was no easy way of determining what size the long format vhpt cache
> should be automatically, and changing it dynamically would be too painful.
> Different workloads performed better with different size vhpt caches.

This is exactly what sparc64 does btw, dynamic TLB miss hash table
sizing based upon task RSS
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