[RFC PATCH] Support for big page sizes on 44x (Updated)

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Yuri & Ilya,

In message <fb412d760811241232j26477d4ficcce27ea670339fb at mail.gmail.com>
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com> wrote:
> > These patches add support for selecting page size on PPC 44x.
> > First one adds support for 16K/64K pages while second one adds support
> > for 256K pages along with some hacks.
> 
> Leaving 256K pages aside for now, do you plan to revise the 4/16/64K
> page size patch for 2.6.29? KVM gets a huge performance boost from 64K
> pages, so I'm anxious to see this go in. I've submitted a few
> supporting patches for incidental problems caused by large pages, so I
> think it's just down to this patch itself now.

Can we please push this upstream with some priority?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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