RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue Mar 4 08:59:12 UTC 2008


David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> I'm concerned that switching back to 4KiB pages is just papering over
> real bugs to make life easier for PPC folks. I suspect that what I
> should _actually_ do is keep it 64KiB, brazen it out and LART people who
> just exclude ppc builds without actually looking at the problem for
> themselves. But I'm lazy too... maybe we should switch the x86_64
> builders to 64KiB instead? :)
>
> Opinions?

I'm surprised there's so much debate.
Isn't it obvious?  A service that finds generic bugs -- and ones
that would likely be much harder to diagnose in any other context.
People will complain no matter what you do, so take the high road:

Brazen it out with a LART :-)




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