On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

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> For the TLB issue, higher order pagecache doesn't help. If distros
> ship with a 4K page size on powerpc, and use some larger pages in
> the pagecache, some people are still going to get angry because
> they wanted to use 64K pages... But I agree 64K pages is too big
> for most things anyway, and 16 would be better as a default (which
> hopefully x86-64 will get one day).

Powerpc supports multiple pagesizes. Maybe we could make mmap use those 
page sizes some day if we had a variable order page cache. Your stands on 
the issue means that powerpc will be forever crippled and not be able to 
use its full potential.
 
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> Anyway, for io performance, there are alternatives, dispite what
> some people seem to be saying. We can submit larger sglists to the
> device for larger ios, which Jens is looking at (which could help
> all types of workloads, not just those with sequential large file
> IO).

Right this could help but it is not addressing the basic requirement for
devices that need large contiguuos chunks of memory for I/O.
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