From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.linux-foundation.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90215DE058 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:43:21 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:43:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Eric Munson Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks Message-Id: <20080730014308.2a447e71.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:10 -0700 Eric Munson wrote: > Certain workloads benefit if their data or text segments are backed by > huge pages. oh. As this is a performance patch, it would be much better if its description contained some performance measurement results! Please. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756533AbYG3Isu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:48:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752437AbYG3Ism (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:48:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47415 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752338AbYG3Ism (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:48:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:43:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Eric Munson Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks Message-Id: <20080730014308.2a447e71.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:10 -0700 Eric Munson wrote: > Certain workloads benefit if their data or text segments are backed by > huge pages. oh. As this is a performance patch, it would be much better if its description contained some performance measurement results! Please. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:43:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks Message-Id: <20080730014308.2a447e71.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Eric Munson Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:10 -0700 Eric Munson wrote: > Certain workloads benefit if their data or text segments are backed by > huge pages. oh. As this is a performance patch, it would be much better if its description contained some performance measurement results! Please. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org