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Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

Posted Sep 21, 2007 19:48 UTC (Fri) by avik (guest, #704)
In reply to: Large pages, large blocks, and large problems by vonbrand
Parent article: Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

My comment (and Linus' remarks) is talking about large pages, not large
blocks. The assumption is that this is a memory workload, not an I/O
workload. There's no disk I/O involved.


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