Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932510AbVJGVVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:21:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932560AbVJGVVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:21:34 -0400 Received: from fmr14.intel.com ([192.55.52.68]:16869 "EHLO fmsfmr002.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932510AbVJGVVd (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:21:33 -0400 Subject: Re: FW: [PATCH 0/3] Demand faulting for huge pages From: Rohit Seth To: hugh@veritas.com, agl@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:28:37 -0700 Message-Id: <1128720518.32679.15.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Oct 2005 21:21:15.0963 (UTC) FILETIME=[0D07C8B0:01C5CB85] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:47 -0700, Adam Litke wrote: > > > If I were to spend time coding up a patch to remove truncation support > for hugetlbfs, would it be something other people would want to see > merged as well? > In its current form, there is very little use of huegtlb truncate functionality. Currently it only allows reducing the size of hugetlb backing file. IMO it will be useful to keep and enhance this capability so that apps can dynamically reduce or increase the size of backing files (for example based on availability of memory at any time). -rohit - 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/