Re: [Qemu-ppc] [RFC for-2.13 0/7] spapr: Clean up pagesize handling

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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.

Good to hear, thanks for checking.

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