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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:02:20 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:30:35PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The main reason I haven't considered doing this is because they already
>> got in and there appears to be a user (Oracle/IA64).

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Not in shipping code.  Certainly no vendor kernels that I am aware of 
> have shipped these syscalls yet either, as nearly all of the developers 
> find them revolting.  Not to mention that the code cleanups and bugfixes 
> are still ongoing.

This is a bit out of my hands; the support decision came from elsewhere.
I have to service my users first, and after that, I don't generally want
to stand in the way of others. In general it's good to have minimalistic
interfaces, but I'm not a party to the concerns regarding the syscalls.
My direct involvement there has been either of a kernel janitor nature,
helping to adapt it to Linux kernel idioms, or reusing code for hugetlbfs.

I guess the only real statement left to make is that hugetlbfs (or my
participation/implementation of it) was not originally intended to
compete with the syscalls, though there's a lot of obvious overlap
(which I tried to exploit by means of code reuse).

Bill
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