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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:31:56 +0200
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I agree, but I think it's ok if we use them only if we have them, and rely =
on
just 2M otherwise.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:28 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM, erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>
>> please don't make it required. =C2=A0there's already array of page sizes=
 per mach.
>
> sorry, but time moves forward. We need the 1G pages for user mode
> anyway -- so the fact that you can run on older machines is a happy
> coincidence but it will die the first time you run a process that uses
> more than 1G. Reducing PTE count by 512 is a not insignificant cost. I
> expect to put the 1G pages for the kernel map back in in the next
> while.
>
> ron
>
>