Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757649AbYG3Tr6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:47:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756252AbYG3Tq6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:46:58 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52758 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757205AbYG3Tq5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:46:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4890C3A5.8050700@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:40:21 -0500 From: Christoph Lameter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Andrew Morton , Eric Munson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Hastings Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks References: <20080730014308.2a447e71.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080730172317.GA14138@csn.ul.ie> <20080730103407.b110afc2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080730193010.GB14138@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20080730193010.GB14138@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 14 Mel Gorman wrote: > With Erics patch and libhugetlbfs, we can automatically back text/data[1], > malloc[2] and stacks without source modification. Fairly soon, libhugetlbfs > will also be able to override shmget() to add SHM_HUGETLB. That should cover > a lot of the memory-intensive apps without source modification. So we are quite far down the road to having a VM that supports 2 page sizes 4k and 2M? -- 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/