Re: Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Sandeep Kumar wrote:

> So, how far is this feature feasible for the linux main line kernel ?
> Is, this feature already supported ?

IA64 has supported 64k page size from the beginning. Since some 
years before the end of the last decade. It is only the hardware 
limitations on IA32 that hold us back.


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