Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271199AbUJVLNT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:13:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271183AbUJVLNT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:13:19 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:9666 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271191AbUJVLNK (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:13:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:12:59 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christoph Lameter , "Chen, Kenneth W" , raybry@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [3/4]: Overcommit handling Message-ID: <20041022111259.GQ17038@holomorphy.com> References: <20041022110116.GA17699@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041022110116.GA17699@infradead.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 20 On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:58:26PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> Changelog >> * overcommit handling On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:01:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > overcommit for huge pages sounds like a realy bad idea. Care to explain > why you want it? It's the opposite of what its name implies; it implements strict non-overcommit, in the sense that it tries to prevent the sum of possible hugetlb allocations arising from handling hugetlb faults from exceeding the size of the hugetlb memory pool. -- wli - 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/