From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262913AbTL2K7Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 05:59:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263002AbTL2K7Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 05:59:25 -0500 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:20732 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262913AbTL2K7Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 05:59:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:59:18 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Page Colouring (was: 2.6.0 Huge pages not working as expected) Message-ID: <20031229105918.GH1882@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List References: <20031228163952.GQ22443@holomorphy.com> <20031229003631.GE1882@matchmail.com> <20031229025507.GT22443@holomorphy.com> <20031229065240.GU22443@holomorphy.com> <20031229092203.GL27687@holomorphy.com> <20031229102319.GW22443@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031229102319.GW22443@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:23:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > bits are sprinkled around, along with a few more involved changes because > a large number of distributed changes are required to handle oddities > that occur when PAGE_SIZE changes from 4KB. The more involved changes > are often for things such as the only reason it uses PAGE_SIZE is > really that it just expects 4KB and says PAGE_SIZE, or that it wants > some fixed (even across compiles) size and needs updating for more > general PAGE_SIZE numbers, or sometimes that it expects PAGE_SIZE to be > what a pte maps when this is now represented by MMUPAGE_SIZE. Any chance some of these changes are self contained, and could be split out and possibly merged into -mm?