Re: [RFC][PATCH] hugetlbfs read support

Bill Irwin
2007-07-10T15:36:49Z

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