Re: Virtual address space exhaustion (was Discontigmem virt_to_page() )

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On Friday 03 May 2002 18:20, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:02:18PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > and solves 75% of the problem. It's not just ia32 numa that will benefit
> > from it. For example, MIPS supports 16K pages in software, which will
>
> the whole change would be specific to ia32, I don't see the connection
> with mips. There would be nothing to share between ia32 2M pages and
> mips 16K pages.

The topic here is 'page clustering'. The idea is to use one struct page for
every four 4K page frames on ia32.

-- 
Daniel
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