From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
raybry@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [3/4]: Overcommit handling
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:12:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041022111259.GQ17038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041022110116.GA17699@infradead.org>
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:58:26PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> Changelog
>> * overcommit handling
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:01:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> overcommit for huge pages sounds like a realy bad idea. Care to explain
> why you want it?
It's the opposite of what its name implies; it implements strict
non-overcommit, in the sense that it tries to prevent the sum of
possible hugetlb allocations arising from handling hugetlb faults from
exceeding the size of the hugetlb memory pool.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-10-22 4:55 ` Hugepages demand paging V1 [0/4]: Discussion and overview Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 4:56 ` Hugepages demand paging V1 [1/4]: demand paging core Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 10:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 15:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 4:57 ` Hugepages demand paging V1 [2/4]: set_huge_pte() arch updates Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 10:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 15:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 15:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 20:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 20:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 20:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 4:58 ` Hugepages demand paging V1 [3/4]: Overcommit handling Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 10:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-22 15:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 15:32 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-10-22 10:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 11:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-22 11:12 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-22 11:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-22 11:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 11:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 4:58 ` Hugepages demand paging V1 [4/4]: Numa patch Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 6:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-10-22 11:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-22 19:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-22 19:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-25 21:25 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-10-25 21:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-25 21:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-25 21:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W
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