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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:08:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040222230821.GA32726@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040220010731.GA28820@sgi.com>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:00:04PM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> It is not functionally complete though.  alloc_fresh_huge_page(), hugetlb_free_pgtables(), and update_and_free_page has #define constant that indirectly from HPAGE_SHIFT.
> 
> You might checked already, text replication works in this case?
> 

(I posted this earlier. However, our mail server has been messed up & I dont think
the mail got thru. Excuse the duplicate if the other mail ever makes it....)



The patch passes preliminary testing.

I dont see any issues with #define constants indirectly using HPAGE_SHIFT. HPAGE_SHIFT
is now defined as:
        #define HPAGE_SHIFT hpage_shift
and
        extern int hpage_shift;         
        int hpage_shift=HPAGE_SHIFT_DEFAULT;


Indirect references should work ok.


> I have more comments, will post later ...
> 
> - Ken
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Jack Steiner
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:08 PM
> To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option
> 
> 
> Here is a preliminary version of a patch that makes the size of
> HUGEPAGES a boottime option. Only ia64-specific files are changed (except
> for the Documentation file).
> 
> We have a number of customers using large pages. Unfortunately, 
> the "optimum" size of a large page is application & configuration
> dependent. Rather that having each customer recompile to specify their
> own HUGEPAGESIZE, this patch make the size a boottime option.
> 
> 
> Does this patch look reasonable? If so, I will incorporate feedback,
> finish testing it, update it to 2.6.3 & resubmit.
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-- 
Thanks

Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com)          651-683-5302
Principal Engineer                      SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-22 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-20  1:07 HUGEPAGE SIZE a boottime option Jack Steiner
2004-02-20  2:35 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-20  4:00 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-20 19:36 ` Seth, Rohit
2004-02-22  5:27 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 23:08 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
2004-02-23 16:19 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-23 16:26 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-23 18:52 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-23 18:58 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-24  4:05 ` Jack Steiner
2004-02-26  1:26 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-26  2:09 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-26  5:18 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-26 20:31 ` Chen, Kenneth W

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