Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Also, I'd suggest enabling 5-level paging as aggressively as possible by default (ie whenever the hardware supports it), just for test coverage.
coverage.
Maybe in a year or two, when we actually have a fair amount of coverage, we'll then say "ok, this just hurts normal workstations that have the capability but only have ridiculously small fraction of memory", and at that point say that unless you have a ton of RAM we'll default to 4-level.
default to 4-level.
Linus
Linus
Linus
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memory.Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Also, I'd suggest enabling 5-level paging as aggressively as possible by default (ie whenever the hardware supports it), just for test coverage.
coverage.
Maybe in a year or two, when we actually have a fair amount of coverage, we'll then say "ok, this just hurts normal workstations that have the capability but only have ridiculously small fraction of memory", and at that point say that unless you have a ton of RAM we'll default to 4-level.
default to 4-level.
Linus
Linus
Linus