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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:03:20 +1000
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,
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Subject: Re: RFC: COW for hugepages
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> 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