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From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Export HPAGE_SHIFT
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:49:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090203164930.GA10101@mtls03> (raw)

Drivers may want to take advantage of the large pages used for memory obtained
from hugetlbfs. One example is mlx4_ib which can use much less MTT entries (in
the order of HPAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE) when registering such memory, thus scale
significantly better when registering larger memory regions. Other drivers
could also benefit from this.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index 8d5b475..6cff8c7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ int mmu_highuser_ssize = MMU_SEGSIZE_256M;
 u16 mmu_slb_size = 64;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 unsigned int HPAGE_SHIFT;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(HPAGE_SHIFT);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES
 int mmu_ci_restrictions;
-- 
1.6.1


             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03 16:49 Eli Cohen [this message]
2009-02-04  1:08 ` FW: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Export HPAGE_SHIFT Roland Dreier
2009-02-04  1:50   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-04  5:13     ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04  5:31       ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-04  6:17         ` wli
2009-02-04  6:16       ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-04  6:26         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 19:11           ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-04 21:00             ` wli
2009-02-04 21:31               ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-04 21:23             ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 23:55             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-05  5:10               ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-05  5:24                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-05  5:33                   ` Roland Dreier

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