From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
'Ray Bryant' <raybry@sgi.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org,
sds@epoch.ncsc.mil, ak@suse.de, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HUGETLB commit handling.
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:05:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u0zuwgbf.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1IKJu-Zn-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (Andy Whitcroft's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:40:12 +0200")
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> We have been looking at the HUGETLB page commit issue (offlist) and are
> close a final merged patch. However, our testing seems to have thrown up
This includes lazy allocation for i386 and IA64, right?
If yes, I'm waiting for your final patch then to remerge the NUMA
policy code into it (currently NUMA API contains a dumb version of lazy
allocation for i386 without any prereservation)
> I would contend this is the right thing to do, as it makes the semantics of
> hugepages match that of the existing small pages. We are looking for a
> consensus as this might be construed as a semantic change.
I think it's more clean to do it at shmget() time too, so it's probably the
right thing to do.
-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
"'Ray Bryant'" <raybry@sgi.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org,
sds@epoch.ncsc.mil, ak@suse.de, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HUGETLB commit handling.
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:05:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u0zuwgbf.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1IKJu-Zn-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (Andy Whitcroft's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:40:12 +0200")
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> We have been looking at the HUGETLB page commit issue (offlist) and are
> close a final merged patch. However, our testing seems to have thrown up
This includes lazy allocation for i386 and IA64, right?
If yes, I'm waiting for your final patch then to remerge the NUMA
policy code into it (currently NUMA API contains a dumb version of lazy
allocation for i386 without any prereservation)
> I would contend this is the right thing to do, as it makes the semantics of
> hugepages match that of the existing small pages. We are looking for a
> consensus as this might be construed as a semantic change.
I think it's more clean to do it at shmget() time too, so it's probably the
right thing to do.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1IKJu-Zn-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-08 17:05 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-04-08 17:05 ` HUGETLB commit handling Andi Kleen
2004-04-08 17:23 ` Ray Bryant
2004-04-08 17:23 ` Ray Bryant
2004-04-08 17:51 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-08 17:51 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-08 16:35 Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-08 16:35 ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-08 21:58 ` Seth, Rohit
2004-04-08 21:58 ` Seth, Rohit
2004-04-08 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-08 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-13 10:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-13 10:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
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