From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx122.postini.com [74.125.245.122]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B81286B004D for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 17:45:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <509993A5.2000605@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:48:05 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs on i386 architecture References: <1352155633-8648-1-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <1352155633-8648-10-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <20121106143826.dc3b960c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121106143826.dc3b960c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michel Lespinasse , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , Ralf Baechle , Paul Mundt , "David S. Miller" , Chris Metcalf , x86@kernel.org, William Irwin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On 11/06/2012 05:38 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:47:06 -0800 > Michel Lespinasse wrote: > >> Update the i386 hugetlb_get_unmapped_area function to make use of >> vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search. > > The x86_64 coloring "fix" wasn't copied into i386? Only certain 64 bit AMD CPUs have that issue at all. On x86, page coloring is really not much of an issue. All the x86-64 patch does is make the x86-64 page coloring code behave the same way page coloring does on MIPS, SPARC, ARM, PA-RISC and others... -- 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