Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:45:03 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Cc: alc@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Large virtual page size support. Message-ID: <43D71E6F.1010008@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060124211522.D602@10.0.0.1> References: <43CD612E.2060002@elischer.org> <63333.1137536336@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060121003908.GD6017@cs.rice.edu> <43D18816.3010909@elischer.org> <20060122194739.O602@10.0.0.1> <43D4630E.70201@samsco.org> <20060124211522.D602@10.0.0.1>
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Jeff Roberson wrote: > > Thanks for the encouragement. There are a few unresolved issues. > Most importantly, how are we presently dealing with config options > that break modules? If the option is to stay as it is, modules will > have to be aware of the page size that is agreed upon by the rest of > the kernel. well we could as a matter of principal make the page size a variable and not a constant. we did the same with HZ which was always a #define. > > There other issues are mostly considering ways to reduce the impact of > the patch on the rest of the system. How to tidy it up a bit more, if > it can be. > >> >> Scott >>
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