Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:55:52 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [4/4]: Numa patch
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:25:09PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
>> The allocate from next best node is orthogonal to hugetlb demand paging.
>> This should be merged once all the bugs are fixed and later when demand
>> paging goes in, we can add the mpol_* stuff.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:52:19PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'm not too picky about this. It appears to be the 4th of the series,
> so assuming they go in in order that should meet your expectations. I
> am significantly more concerned about the flush_dcache_page() issue in
> general, though. I guess this should light a fire under my backside to
> dredge up the docs describing the proper TLB flushing methods to use
> in conjunction with large page extensions for the affected arches.

Cache flushing methods.


-- wli
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