Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264134AbUDGHyH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 03:54:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264135AbUDGHyG (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 03:54:06 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:54236 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264134AbUDGHyF (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 03:54:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:53:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Gibson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, anton@samba.org, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RFC: COW for hugepages Message-Id: <20040407005353.45323dcd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040407074239.GG18264@zax> References: <20040407074239.GG18264@zax> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 13 David Gibson wrote: > > Doing the COW for hugepages turns out not to be terribly difficult. > Is there any reason not to apply this patch? Not much, except that it adds stuff to the kernel. Does anyone actually have a real-world need for the feature? - 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/