From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:12:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:12:21 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:52415 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:12:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:15:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" , gh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com Subject: Re: large page patch Message-ID: <20020802071513.GI25038@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , "Martin J. Bligh" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" , gh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com References: <15690.9727.831144.67179@napali.hpl.hp.com> <868823061.1028244804@[10.10.2.3]> <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At some point in the past, Dave Miller wrote: DaveM> In my opinion the proposed large-page patch addresses a DaveM> relatively pressing need for databases (primarily). DaveM> Databases want large pages with IPC_SHM, how can this DaveM> special syscal hack address that? At some point in the past, David Mosberger wrote: I believe the interface is OK in that regard. AFAIK, Oracle is happy with it. "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> Is Oracle now the world's only database? I think not. On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:08:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Is a draft of Simon's patch available against 2.5? Unless I can turn blood into wine, walk on water, and produce a working 2.5 version of the thing in < 6 hours (not that I'm not trying), this will probably have to wait until Hubertus remeterializes tomorrow morning (EDT) and further porting is done. I'll be up early. Cheers, Bill From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:15:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: large page patch Message-ID: <20020802071513.GI25038@holomorphy.com> References: <15690.9727.831144.67179@napali.hpl.hp.com> <868823061.1028244804@[10.10.2.3]> <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" gh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com List-ID: At some point in the past, Dave Miller wrote: DaveM> In my opinion the proposed large-page patch addresses a DaveM> relatively pressing need for databases (primarily). DaveM> Databases want large pages with IPC_SHM, how can this DaveM> special syscal hack address that? At some point in the past, David Mosberger wrote: I believe the interface is OK in that regard. AFAIK, Oracle is happy with it. "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> Is Oracle now the world's only database? I think not. On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:08:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Is a draft of Simon's patch available against 2.5? Unless I can turn blood into wine, walk on water, and produce a working 2.5 version of the thing in < 6 hours (not that I'm not trying), this will probably have to wait until Hubertus remeterializes tomorrow morning (EDT) and further porting is done. I'll be up early. Cheers, Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/