From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kniht@us.ibm.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
agl@us.ibm.com, abh@cray.com, joachim.deguara@amd.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: present information in sysfs
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 06:28:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530042846.GC25792@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530042107.GA7946@kroah.com>
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:37:49AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Greg. Nish will be away for a few weeks but I'm picking up his patch
> > and so I can add the Documentation/ABI change.
> >
> > I agree the interface looks nice, so thanks to everyone for the input and
> > discussion. A minor nit: is there any point specifying units in the
> > hugepages directory names? hugepages-64K hugepages-16M hugepages-16G?
> >
> > Or perhaps for easier parsing, they could be the same unit but still
> > specificied? hugepages-64K hugepages-16384K etc?
>
> I don't care, nothing is going to parse the directory names, they are
> pretty much fixed, right? Just pick a unit and stick with it :)
I can imagine a cross platform app or library parsing them to find
eg. the largest one available that fits the required size and alignment.
Even within the same platform, there could be many different sizes
(eg. ia64).
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Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-25 14:23 [patch 00/23] multi size, giant hugetlb support, 1GB for x86, 16GB for powerpc npiggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 01/23] hugetlb: fix lockdep error npiggin
2008-05-27 16:30 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 19:55 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 02/23] hugetlb: factor out huge_new_page npiggin
2008-05-27 16:31 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 20:03 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 03/23] hugetlb: modular state npiggin
2008-05-27 16:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-28 8:40 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-27 20:38 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-28 9:13 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 04/23] hugetlb: multiple hstates npiggin
2008-05-27 16:52 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 20:43 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 05/23] hugetlb: multi hstate proc files npiggin
2008-05-29 5:07 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-29 5:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-29 6:30 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-29 9:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 06/23] hugetlbfs: per mount hstates npiggin
2008-05-27 16:58 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 20:50 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 07/23] hugetlb: multi hstate sysctls npiggin
2008-05-27 21:00 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-28 9:59 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-29 4:59 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-29 5:36 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-29 8:59 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-29 6:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: present information in sysfs Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-29 6:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: remove multi-valued proc files Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-30 3:51 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-30 7:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-30 2:58 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: present information in sysfs Greg KH
2008-05-30 3:37 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-30 4:21 ` Greg KH
2008-05-30 4:28 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-05-30 7:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-30 7:41 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-30 13:40 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-30 7:39 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 08/23] hugetlb: abstract numa round robin selection npiggin
2008-05-27 17:01 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 21:02 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 09/23] mm: introduce non panic alloc_bootmem npiggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 10/23] mm: export prep_compound_page to mm npiggin
2008-05-27 21:05 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 11/23] hugetlb: support larger than MAX_ORDER npiggin
2008-05-27 21:23 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-28 10:22 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 12/23] hugetlb: support boot allocate different sizes npiggin
2008-05-27 17:04 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 21:28 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-28 10:57 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-28 14:01 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-28 14:35 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 13/23] hugetlb: printk cleanup npiggin
2008-05-27 17:05 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 21:30 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 14/23] hugetlb: introduce huge_pud npiggin
2008-05-26 11:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-05-27 2:24 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 15/23] x86: support GB hugepages on 64-bit npiggin
2008-05-27 21:35 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 16/23] x86: add hugepagesz option " npiggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 17/23] hugetlb: do not always register default HPAGE_SIZE huge page size npiggin
2008-05-27 21:39 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 18/23] hugetlb: allow arch overried hugepage allocation npiggin
2008-05-27 21:41 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 19/23] powerpc: function to allocate gigantic hugepages npiggin
2008-05-27 21:44 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 20/23] powerpc: scan device tree for gigantic pages npiggin
2008-05-27 21:47 ` Adam Litke
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 21/23] powerpc: define support for 16G hugepages npiggin
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 22/23] fs: check for statfs overflow npiggin
2008-05-27 17:14 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-27 17:19 ` Jon Tollefson
2008-05-28 9:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-29 23:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-05-30 0:12 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-30 1:14 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-02 3:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-06-03 3:27 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-03 17:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-05-25 14:23 ` [patch 23/23] powerpc: support multiple hugepage sizes npiggin
2008-05-27 17:14 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-05-28 8:49 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-25 14:42 ` [patch 00/23] multi size, giant hugetlb support, 1GB for x86, 16GB for powerpc Nick Piggin
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