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| author | Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com> | 2010-05-13 10:48:27 -0500 |
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| committer | Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> | 2010-08-04 10:22:34 +0200 |
| commit | ba9c4f88d747836bf35c3eee36aa18d2e164f493 (patch) | |
| tree | d244c9946b40af1ea21a1b71d3e49efa513bb4b7 /arch/microblaze/Kconfig | |
| parent | 0d9ec762af297f1ef38114f9498322d994063802 (diff) | |
microblaze: Allow PAGE_SIZE configuration
Allow developer to configure memory page size at compile time.
Larger pages can improve performance on some workloads.
Based on PowerPC code.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/microblaze/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/microblaze/Kconfig | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/Kconfig b/arch/microblaze/Kconfig index 505a08592423..a51742190c12 100644 --- a/arch/microblaze/Kconfig +++ b/arch/microblaze/Kconfig @@ -223,6 +223,36 @@ config TASK_SIZE hex "Size of user task space" if TASK_SIZE_BOOL default "0x80000000" +choice + prompt "Page size" + default MICROBLAZE_4K_PAGES + depends on ADVANCED_OPTIONS && !MMU + help + Select the kernel logical page size. Increasing the page size + will reduce software overhead at each page boundary, allow + hardware prefetch mechanisms to be more effective, and allow + larger dma transfers increasing IO efficiency and reducing + overhead. However the utilization of memory will increase. + For example, each cached file will using a multiple of the + page size to hold its contents and the difference between the + end of file and the end of page is wasted. + + If unsure, choose 4K_PAGES. + +config MICROBLAZE_4K_PAGES + bool "4k page size" + +config MICROBLAZE_8K_PAGES + bool "8k page size" + +config MICROBLAZE_16K_PAGES + bool "16k page size" + +config MICROBLAZE_32K_PAGES + bool "32k page size" + +endchoice + endmenu source "mm/Kconfig" |