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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] contigous big page allocator
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:01:43 +0200
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
>
> What this wants to do: 
>   allocates a contiguous chunk of pages larger than MAX_ORDER.
>   for device drivers (camera? etc..)

I think to really move forward you need a concrete use case
actually implemented in tree.

>   My intention is not for allocating HUGEPAGE(> MAX_ORDER).

I still believe using this for 1GB pages would be one of the more
interesting use cases.

-Andi

-- 
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