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The issue is required to be filed prior to feature submission, to ensure that someone is on board to do any process development work and testing and that all changes make it into the pipeline; a bullet point in a change is not sufficient communication --> | The issue is required to be filed prior to feature submission, to ensure that someone is on board to do any process development work and testing and that all changes make it into the pipeline; a bullet point in a change is not sufficient communication --> | ||
* Policies and guidelines: | * Policies and guidelines: no, as it is an arch-specific issues, most other architectures already have a 4k page size <!-- REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES --> | ||
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Revision as of 20:28, 11 January 2021
POWER 4k page size
Summary
On ppc64le, the kernel is currently compiled for 64k page size.
This change proposes using the more common 4k page size.
Some HPC workloads may be disadvantaged slightly. Workstation users are likely to encounter fewer bugs.
Some things, like the AMD Radeon GPU drivers, firmware or related code, appear to be completely non-functional on the 64k page size. Insufficient upstream developers are testing such issues on this architecture.
Owner
- Name: Daniel Pocock
- Email: daniel@pocock.pro
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 34
- Last updated: 2021-01-11
- FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
Feedback
Discussed several times on devel, latest here
discussed upstream in the Raptor forum
Benefit to Fedora
Better first impression for users of ppc64le workstations.
Users can focus on reporting ppc64le bugs without being sidetracked by page size bugs.
Scope
- Proposal owners: Daniel Pocock
- Other developers: please volunteer by adding your name here
- Release engineering: #9939 (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
- Policies and guidelines: no, as it is an arch-specific issues, most other architectures already have a 4k page size
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with Objectives: none of the current objectives relate to this change
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
User Experience
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? product