16kB pages weren't too hard to get running before, iirc, it's just that most dev...

p_l on Nov 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tales of the M1 GPU

16kB pages weren't too hard to get running before, iirc, it's just that most devices people care about went to 64kB.

Generally linux is happy unless you try to make pages smaller than 4kB,then all sorts of hell break lose in VFS

saagarjha on Nov 30, 2022 [–]

Linux is generally fine with 16K pages; userspace programs often are not.