The state of the page in 2024 [LWN.net]

The state of the page in 2024

Posted May 16, 2024 7:45 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: The state of the page in 2024 by WolfWings
Parent article: The state of the page in 2024

I think the other thing about vFAT is the entire UEFI filesystem would probably fit into a single large page (I might be exaggerating slightly here, but only just :-) so even if it were performance critical there might be pretty much no benefits to be had ...

Cheers,
Wol

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The state of the page in 2024

Posted May 16, 2024 18:30 UTC (Thu) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link] (1 responses)

My UEFI System Partition contains 160 megs of stuff, and no cruft. But of course, if the single page is large enough...

The state of the page in 2024

Posted May 16, 2024 18:44 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

My laptop uses 1 GiB pages for most of the direct map of physical memory. Your UEFI System Partition would fit in one page :-)