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Cc: alc@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Large virtual page size support.
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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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