From: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
nacc@us.ibm.com, clameter@sgi.com,
Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>,
agl@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] hugetlbfs read support
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:36:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710153649.GU26380@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070710091720.GA28371@infradead.org>
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:28:11PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>> This code is very similar to what do_generic_mapping_read() does, but
>> I can't use it since it has PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumptions. Christoph
>> Lamater's cleanup to pagecache would hopefully give me all of this.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:17:20AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The code looks fine, but I really hate that we need it all all. We really
> should make the general VM/FS code large page aware and get rid of this
> whole hack called hugetlbfs..
That needs to be taken up with Linus. If it's any consolation, I'm in
favor of such myself.
-- wli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-09 19:28 [RFC][PATCH] hugetlbfs read support Badari Pulavarty
2007-07-10 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-10 15:28 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-07-10 16:10 ` Bill Irwin
2007-07-10 15:36 ` Bill Irwin [this message]
2007-07-10 18:38 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-07-10 15:37 ` Bill Irwin
2007-07-10 15:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-07-10 16:12 ` Bill Irwin
2007-07-10 18:34 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-07-10 18:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-10 18:57 ` Bill Irwin
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