[RFC PATCH -V2 04/21] powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Fri Feb 22 16:07:05 EST 2013


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:17:11PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This make one PMD cover 16MB range. That helps in easier implementation of THP
> on power. THP core code make use of one pmd entry to track the huge page and
> the range mapped by a single pmd entry should be equal to the huge page size
> supported by the hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>


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