Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271220AbUJVLX4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:23:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271217AbUJVLXz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:23:55 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:16834 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271220AbUJVLXU (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:23:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:23:08 -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: <20041022112308.GS17038@holomorphy.com> References: <20041022110116.GA17699@infradead.org> <20041022111259.GQ17038@holomorphy.com> <20041022111626.GA18037@infradead.org> <20041022112101.GR17038@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041022112101.GR17038@holomorphy.com> 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: 838 Lines: 19 On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:16:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> I thought that was the state of the art for hugetlb pages already? On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:21:01AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Only vacuously so, for mainline is not handling hugetlb faults. > The real impediment to all this is that no one is bothering to dredge > up architecture manuals for the architectures they're touching to > create plausible equivalents of update_mmu_cache(), clear_dcache_page() > (not considered by Lameter's patches at all), et al for hugetlb. flush_dcache_page(), sorry. -- 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/