Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262537AbUJ0RMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262527AbUJ0RLx (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:11:53 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:54480 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262522AbUJ0Q1J (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:27:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:25:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: David Gibson cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" , William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hugepages demand paging V2 [0/8]: Discussion and overview In-Reply-To: <20041027052317.GG1676@zax> Message-ID: References: <20041027052317.GG1676@zax> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 15 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, David Gibson wrote: > I wish we could start calling this "lazy allocation" instead of > "demand paging". "Demand paging" makes people think of swapping > hugepages, or mapping files on real filesystems with hugepages, which > is not what these patches do, and probably something we don't want to > do. Good idea. - 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/