Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263219AbUDBHIp (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 02:08:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263308AbUDBHIp (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 02:08:45 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:49844 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263219AbUDBHIo (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 02:08:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16493.4424.598870.574364@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:07:52 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Andrew Morton , hugh@veritas.com, vrajesh@umich.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix In-Reply-To: <20040402070525.A31581@infradead.org> References: <20040402001535.GG18585@dualathlon.random> <20040402011627.GK18585@dualathlon.random> <20040401173649.22f734cd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040402020022.GN18585@dualathlon.random> <20040401180802.219ece99.akpm@osdl.org> <20040402022233.GQ18585@dualathlon.random> <20040402070525.A31581@infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 20 Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:22:33AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Well, I doubt anybody could take advantage of this optimization, since > > nobody can ship with hugetlbfs disabled anyways (peraphs with the > > exception of the embedded people but then I doubt they want to risk > > Common. stop smoking that bad stuff. Almost non-one except the known > oracle whores SuSE and RH need it. Remeber Linux is used much more widely > except the known "Enterprise" vendors. None of the NAS/networking/media > applicances or pdas I've seen has the slightest need for hugetlbfs. The HPC types also love hugetlbfs since it reduces their tlb miss rate. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/