Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 01:30:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 01:30:30 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:26785 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 01:30:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 22:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020801.222053.20302294.davem@redhat.com> To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com Cc: gh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, akpm@zip.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com Subject: Re: large page patch From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <15690.6005.624237.902152@napali.hpl.hp.com> References:

<15690.6005.624237.902152@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 16 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:24:05 -0700 In my opinion the proposed large-page patch addresses a relatively pressing need for databases (primarily). Databases want large pages with IPC_SHM, how can this special syscal hack address that? It's great for experimentation, but give up syscall slots for this? - 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/