From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/8] Enhance ramfs to support higher order pages
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:21:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070420192115.GK31925@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704201051040.20868@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Probably just terminological disagreement here. I was referring to
>> allocating the higher-order page from the fault path here, not mapping
>> it or a piece of it with a user pte.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Ah. Okay. I have some dysfunctional patches here that implement mmap
> support. Would you be willing to take care of that aspect of things? Then
> I can focus on the other VM pieces. I am going to post them following this
> message. These are an absolute mess. They do not compile etc etc.
Good stuff. Going over this sounds like more fun than trying to
preemptively clean up after whichever scheduler trainwreck ends up
hitting mainline.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 16:35 [RFC 0/8] Variable Order Page Cache Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 1/8] Add order field to address_space struct Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 2/8] Basic allocation for higher order page cache pages Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 10:55 ` Mel Gorman
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 3/8] Flushing and zeroing " Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 11:02 ` Mel Gorman
2007-04-20 16:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 16:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 4/8] Enhance fallback functions in libs to support higher order pages Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 18:48 ` Adam Litke
2007-04-19 19:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 22:50 ` David Chinner
2007-04-20 1:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 8:21 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-20 16:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 16:51 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-20 11:05 ` Mel Gorman
2007-04-20 18:50 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-04-20 19:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 19:27 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-04-24 23:00 ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 5/8] Enhance generic_read/write " Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 6/8] Account for pages in the page cache in terms of base pages Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 17:45 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-04-19 17:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 17:54 ` Avi Kivity
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 7/8] Enhance ramfs to support higher order pages Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 13:42 ` Mel Gorman
2007-04-20 14:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 16:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 17:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 17:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 17:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 17:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 19:21 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-04-20 17:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 18:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 18:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 16:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 16:35 ` [RFC 8/8] Add some debug output Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 19:09 ` [RFC 0/8] Variable Order Page Cache Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-19 19:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 19:11 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-19 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 14:37 ` Mel Gorman
2007-04-19 22:42 ` David Chinner
2007-04-20 1:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 6:32 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-20 7:48 ` David Chinner
2007-04-21 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-19 23:58 ` Maxim Levitsky
2007-04-20 1:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 4:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 5:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 6:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 8:42 ` David Chinner
2007-04-20 14:14 ` Mel Gorman
2007-04-20 16:23 ` Christoph Lameter
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