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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hugetlb demanding paging for -mm tree
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040811004527.GJ11200@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01EF044AAEE12F4BAAD955CB750649430205DDE1@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

William Lee Irwin III <mailto:wli@holomorphy.com> wrote on Tuesday,
>> Could you rephrase that? I'm having trouble figuring out what you
>> meant. 

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:28:27PM -0700, Seth, Rohit wrote:
> I was thinking that we only need to worry about the d-cache coherency at
> the time of hugepage fault.  But that is not a safe assumption.  You are
> right that we will need update_mmu_cache in the hugetlb page fault path.
> Though I'm wondering if we can hide this update_mmu_cache fucntionality
> behind the arch specific set_huge_pte function in the demand paging
> patch for hugepage.  If so then we may not need to make any changes in
> the existing update_mmu_cache API.

Most arches seem to be okay with the API, but it may be more useful/etc.
to e.g. explicitly pass the page size, particularly when constant
folding is possible.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-11  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-11  0:28 Hugetlb demanding paging for -mm tree Seth, Rohit
2004-08-11  0:45 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-11  6:36 Seth, Rohit
2004-08-11  6:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-10  8:52 Seth, Rohit
2004-08-10  8:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-09 18:43 Seth, Rohit
2004-08-09 18:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 13:29 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-05 13:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 13:39   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-05 16:35     ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-08-06 20:55       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-06 21:07         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-07  8:13           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-09 18:19           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-09 19:12             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-07  8:36     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-09 18:54       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-09 19:12         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 13:42   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-05 14:04     ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-06 21:06       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-08-05 13:43 ` Andi Kleen

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