From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zou Nan hai Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:26:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 0/8] IA64 various hugepage size - Overview Message-Id: <1144974367.5817.39.camel@linux-znh> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LKML , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Luck@vger.kernel.org, Tony , Chen@vger.kernel.org, Kenneth W This series of patches add support to have different hugepage sizes for different tasks on IA64. While still keep the kernel compatible to old applications. With this patch, application can set it's huge page size via a prctl syscall. Then different hugepage sized applications can co-work together. Zou Nan hai From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965072AbWDNCIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:08:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965067AbWDNCIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:08:38 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:5174 "EHLO fmsmga101-1.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965057AbWDNCIh (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:08:37 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.04,119,1144047600"; d="scan'208"; a="23803713:sNHT15495942" Subject: [PATCH 0/8] IA64 various hugepage size - Overview From: Zou Nan hai To: LKML , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Luck@vger.kernel.org, Tony , Chen@vger.kernel.org, Kenneth W Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1144974367.5817.39.camel@linux-znh> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 14 Apr 2006 08:26:07 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This series of patches add support to have different hugepage sizes for different tasks on IA64. While still keep the kernel compatible to old applications. With this patch, application can set it's huge page size via a prctl syscall. Then different hugepage sized applications can co-work together. Zou Nan hai