Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751342AbWARGLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:11:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751343AbWARGLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:11:52 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40]:19942 "EHLO ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbWARGLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:11:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:11:24 -0600 From: Dave McCracken To: Dave Hansen , Robin Holt cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linux Memory Management Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Shared page tables Message-ID: <318E5C5091D3BB0EA8F0C497@[10.1.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <1137543450.27951.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060117235302.GA22451@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <1137543450.27951.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0b4 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 33 --On Tuesday, January 17, 2006 16:17:30 -0800 Dave Hansen wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:53 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: >> This appears to work on ia64 with the attached patch. Could you >> send me any test application you think would be helpful for me >> to verify it is operating correctly? I could not get the PTSHARE_PUD >> to compile. I put _NO_ effort into it. I found the following line >> was invalid and quit trying. > ... >> +config PTSHARE >> + bool "Share page tables" >> + default y >> + help >> + Turn on sharing of page tables between processes for large shared >> + memory regions. > ... > > These are probably best put in mm/Kconfig, especially if you're going to > have verbatim copies in each architecture. No, the specific variables that should be set are different per architecture, and some (most) architectures don't yet support shared page tables. It's likely some never will. Dave McCracken - 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/