From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:28:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:28:43 -0400 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:16620 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:28:39 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15695.24409.833587.145526@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:32:09 -0700 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, gh@us.ibm.com, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20020805.220836.12920570.davem@redhat.com> References: <15695.22556.128499.64377@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020805.215817.05805181.davem@redhat.com> <15695.23644.912136.988590@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020805.220836.12920570.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 22:08:36 -0700 (PDT), "David S. Miller" said: > From: David Mosberger Date: > Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:19:24 -0700 > Sounds great if you have the hardware that can do it. Not > too many CPUs I know of support it. DaveM> Of course, and the fact that nobody has put it into silicon DaveM> may be a suggestion of how useful the feature really is :-) My thought exactly! ;-) --david