Mel Gorman wrote:

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:

Todays massive machines are tomorrows desktop. Weak comment, I know, but
it's happened before.

Oh I wouldn't bet against it. And if desktops of the future are using
100s of GB then they probably would be happy to use 64K pages as well.

quoted

Maybe the solution is to bloat the kernel sources enough to make
64KB pages worthwhile?

Sorry this wasn't meant to be a dig at your patches - I guess it turned
out that way though :\

But yes, if anybody is adding complexity or size to core code it
obviously does need to be justified -- and by no means does this only
apply to you.

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