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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RFC: COW for hugepages
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:53:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040408015327.GB20320@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4073C33B.7B7808E7@nospam.org>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:00:43AM +0200, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> David,
> 
> Why not just add a flag for a VMA telling if you want / do not want to
> copy it on "fork()" ? E.g.:
> 
> dup_mmap():
> 
> 	for (= current->mm->mmap ; mpnt ; mpnt = mpnt->vm_next) {
> 
> 		if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB_DONT_COPY)
> 			<do nothing>
> 	}
> 

Um.. why would that be useful?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-08  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-07  7:42 RFC: COW for hugepages David Gibson
2004-04-07  7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07  8:03   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-07  8:29   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-08  1:57     ` David Gibson
2004-04-07  9:00 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2004-04-08  1:53   ` David Gibson [this message]
2004-04-08 11:10     ` Zoltan Menyhart
2004-04-08 14:19       ` David Gibson
2004-04-07 12:34 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-07 14:27   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-07 14:50     ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-07 21:41       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-07 21:47         ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-08  1:11   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-08  2:01     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-08  3:09       ` David Gibson
2004-04-08  3:24         ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-08  3:56           ` David Gibson
2004-04-08  1:50   ` David Gibson
2004-04-07 15:21 ` Dave Hansen
2004-04-08  3:22   ` David Gibson

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