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KHB: Transparent support for large pagesKHB: Transparent support for large pagesPosted Jun 22, 2006 15:29 UTC (Thu) by mattmelton (subscriber, #34842)Parent article: KHB: Transparent support for large pages
Great article. It picks up where my computer systems course left me.
This is an implementation of superpaging that I've come across before. It's not a huge innovation, but to see to see it produce real results (the gzip test in particular) its very promising.
I think fact it is written is less than 4k lines is quite important. I'd like to see how directly this can be implemented in Linux's VM layer. I worry a little that a different implementation could lead to unavoidable arch related bloat :/
(i should point our here that I have no knowledge or alphas or how adaptable the vm critical paths are)
I think there was a little too much "chat" in the article however - but im just used to reading JC's, greg's and RML's articles, so thats a totally mute point (and thankfully no-ones seen my thesis!)
Matt
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KHB: Transparent support for large pages Posted Jun 22, 2006 23:52 UTC (Thu) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111) [Link] A little bit of "chat" is OK. Lacking that, I don't really single out the other LWN writers (english is not my native language though). Also, irrelevant things (like "Personally, I'm not sure I've ever seen a better evaluation in a research paper; it's quite a treat to read.") may actually be good, because they show that the writer cares, and because they allow breaking the reader's train of thoughts, making the text more easy to chew.
KHB: Transparent support for large pages Posted Jun 28, 2006 23:09 UTC (Wed) by fergal (subscriber, #602) [Link] I agree. If I wanted formal and dry, I'd read the original paper (I haven't read the original so I'm just guessing that it's formal and dry to some degree).
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