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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, raybry@sgi.com,
	"'Andy Whitcroft'" <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: hugetlb demand paging patch part [0/3]
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:04:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081933442.4688.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404132317.i3DNH4F21162@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

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On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 01:17, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> In addition to the hugetlb commit handling that we've been working on
> off the list, Ray Bryant of SGI and I are also working on demand paging
> for hugetlb page.  Here are our final version that has been heavily
> tested on ia64 and x86.  I've broken the patch into 3 pieces so it's
> easier to read/review, etc.

Ok I think it's time to say "HO STOP" here.

If you're going to make the kernel deal with different, concurrent page
sizes then please do it for real. Or alternatively leave hugetlb to be
the kludge/hack it is right now. Anything inbetween is the road to
madness...

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-14  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13 23:17 hugetlb demand paging patch part [0/3] Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-14  9:04 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-04-14 10:08   ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-14 15:21   ` [Lse-tech] " Martin J. Bligh
2004-04-14 15:23     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-04-15  1:23   ` David Gibson
2004-04-15  6:42 ` David Gibson
2004-04-15 17:08   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-16  1:30     ` 'David Gibson'
2004-04-16  3:01       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-16  3:32         ` 'David Gibson'
2004-04-16  3:43           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-16  4:02             ` 'David Gibson'
     [not found] <7A4826DE8867D411BAB8009027AE9EB91DB42C83@scsmsx401.sc.intel.com>
2004-04-15 18:42 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-16  1:38   ` 'David Gibson'

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