On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 20:21 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:31:10AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > I'll check out what other distros are doing: if all the major ones > > are defaulting to 64 KiB pages these days, it might be reasonable > > to do the same and pretend smaller page sizes don't exist at all in > > order to avoid the pain of having to tweak yet another knob, even > > if that means leaving people compiling their own custom kernels > > with 4 KiB page size in the dust. > > That's my guess.
I just checked RHEL 7, Fedora 27, OpenSUSE Leap 42.3, Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04: they all use 64 KiB pages, so I'd conclude leaving out 4 KiB pages support is basically a non-issue. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
