From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:45:33 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <9d74561219e8118f52ca058376953936@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] gar nix! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25971c1a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>sure but we are talking about x86_64, which has a limited number of >>possible page sizes >no, it doesn't. i cut off that message: what do we usually do when the hardware doesn't do quite what we'd like? admittedly, if it had only Gbyte and 2 Mbyte pages, then indeed, there wouldn't be much to be done about it. 4k is better in that regard, because it's too small.