Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262453AbUJ0OPh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:15:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262452AbUJ0OPb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:15:31 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:8580 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262451AbUJ0OPU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:15:20 -0400 Message-ID: <417FAED5.7070603@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:21:09 -0500 From: Ray Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , "Chen, Kenneth W" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hugepages demand paging V2 [0/8]: Discussion and overview References: <20041027064851.GW15367@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20041027064851.GW15367@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1599 Lines: 43 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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/ > How differently? What do you have in mind? -- Best Regards, Ray ----------------------------------------------- Ray Bryant 512-453-9679 (work) 512-507-7807 (cell) raybry@sgi.com raybry@austin.rr.com The box said: "Requires Windows 98 or better", so I installed Linux. ----------------------------------------------- - 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/