From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ak@suse.de, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines.......
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:54:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315235409.GM655@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405550F6.1070203@sgi.com>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:45:10AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote:
> I'd still rather see us do the "allocate on fault" approach with
> prereservation to maintain the current ENOMEM return code from mmap()
> for hugepages. Let me work on that and get back to y'all with a patch
> and see where we can go from there. I'll start by taking a look at
> all of the arch dependent hugetlbpage.c's and see how common they all
> are and move the common code up to mm/hugetlbpage.c.
> (or did WLI's note imply that this is impossible?)
It would be a mistake to put any pagetable handling functions in the
core. Things above that level, e.g. callers that don't examine the
pagetables directly in favor of calling lower-level API's, are fine.
-- wli
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ak@suse.de, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines.......
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:54:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315235409.GM655@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405550F6.1070203@sgi.com>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:45:10AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote:
> I'd still rather see us do the "allocate on fault" approach with
> prereservation to maintain the current ENOMEM return code from mmap()
> for hugepages. Let me work on that and get back to y'all with a patch
> and see where we can go from there. I'll start by taking a look at
> all of the arch dependent hugetlbpage.c's and see how common they all
> are and move the common code up to mm/hugetlbpage.c.
> (or did WLI's note imply that this is impossible?)
It would be a mistake to put any pagetable handling functions in the
core. Things above that level, e.g. callers that don't examine the
pagetables directly in favor of calling lower-level API's, are fine.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-15 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-13 3:44 Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Ray Bryant
2004-03-13 3:44 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-13 3:45 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-13 3:45 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-13 3:48 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-13 3:48 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-13 5:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-13 5:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-13 16:10 ` [Lse-tech] " Andi Kleen
2004-03-13 16:10 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-14 0:05 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-14 0:05 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-14 5:22 ` Peter Chubb
2004-03-14 5:22 ` Peter Chubb
2004-03-15 23:31 ` Seth, Rohit
2004-03-15 23:31 ` Seth, Rohit
[not found] ` <844231526.20040313030948@adinet.com.uy>
[not found] ` <20040313061232.GB655@holomorphy.com>
2004-03-13 16:32 ` Re[2]: " Luis Mirabal
2004-03-14 2:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 2:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 4:06 ` [Lse-tech] " Anton Blanchard
2004-03-14 4:06 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-17 19:05 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-17 19:05 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-18 20:25 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 20:25 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 21:22 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Stephen Smalley
2004-03-18 21:22 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Stephen Smalley
2004-03-18 22:21 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-18 22:21 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-23 17:30 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-23 17:30 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-24 17:38 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-24 17:38 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-14 8:38 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-14 8:38 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-14 8:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-14 8:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-14 8:57 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 8:57 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 9:02 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 9:02 ` [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 9:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-14 9:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-15 6:45 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-15 6:45 ` Ray Bryant
2004-03-15 23:54 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-03-15 23:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-13 3:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-13 3:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-13 4:56 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-03-13 4:56 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-03-16 0:30 ` Nobuhiko Yoshida
2004-03-16 0:30 ` Nobuhiko Yoshida
2004-03-16 1:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-16 1:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-16 2:32 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-03-16 2:32 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-03-16 3:20 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-03-16 3:20 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-03-16 3:15 ` Nobuhiko Yoshida
2004-03-16 3:15 ` Nobuhiko Yoshida
2004-04-01 9:10 ` Nobuhiko Yoshida
2004-04-01 9:10 ` Nobuhiko Yoshida
2004-03-15 15:28 ` jlnance
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