Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262894AbVAFP7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:59:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262898AbVAFP7M (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:59:12 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:48548 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262894AbVAFP6r (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:58:47 -0500 Message-ID: <41DD608A.80003@sgi.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:00:10 -0600 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: Andi Kleen CC: Steve Longerbeam , Hugh Dickins , "cl >> Christoph Lameter" , Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm , andrew morton Subject: Re: page migration patchset References: <41DC7EAD.8010407@mvista.com> <20050106144307.GB59451@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20050106144307.GB59451@muc.de> 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: 1466 Lines: 36 Andi Kleen wrote: > > You need lazy hugetlbfs to use it (= allocate at page fault time, > not mmap time). Otherwise the policy can never be applied. I implemented > my own version of lazy allocation for SLES9, but when I wanted to > merge it into mainline some other people told they had a much better > singing&dancing lazy hugetlb patch. So I waited for them, but they > never went forward with their stuff and their code seems to be dead > now. So this is still a dangling end :/ > > If nothing happens soon regarding the "other" hugetlb code I will > forward port my SLES9 code. It already has NUMA policy support. Andi, I too have been frustrated by this process. I think Christoph Lameter at SGI is looking at forward porting the "old" lazy hugetlbpage allocation code. Of course, the proof is in the "doing" of this and I am not sure what other priorities he has at the moment. -- 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/