Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262256AbUJ0GxR (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:53:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262289AbUJ0Guy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:50:54 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:35820 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262256AbUJ0GtE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:49:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:48:51 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , "Chen, Kenneth W" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hugepages demand paging V2 [0/8]: Discussion and overview Message-ID: <20041027064851.GW15367@holomorphy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 912 Lines: 21 On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:26:42PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Hugetlb demand paging has been part of SuSE SLES 9 for awhile now and > this patchset is intended to help hugetlb demand paging also get into > the official Linux kernel. Huge pages are referred to as "compound" > pages in terms of "struct page" in the Linux kernel. The term "compund page" may be used alternatively to huge page. This may very well explain why SLES9 is triplefaulting when Oracle tries to use hugetlb on it on x86-64. Since all this is clearly malfunctioning and not done anywhere near carefully enough, can I at least get *some* sanction to do any of this differently? -- 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/