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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	paulus@samba.org, linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RFC: COW for hugepages
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:03:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040407080320.GN26474@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040407005353.45323dcd.akpm@osdl.org>

 
> Not much, except that it adds stuff to the kernel.
> 
> Does anyone actually have a real-world need for the feature?

Ive been playing with a malloc library that uses largepages. It needs
largepage COW to work.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07  8:05 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 [this message]
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
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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