Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:46:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:46:15 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:30643 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:46:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 17:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020803.173530.35650310.davem@redhat.com> To: frankeh@watson.ibm.com Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, gh@us.ibm.com, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com, wli@holomorpy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200208031754.30337.frankeh@watson.ibm.com> References: <15692.18584.1391.30730@napali.hpl.hp.com> <200208031754.30337.frankeh@watson.ibm.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: 626 Lines: 14 From: Hubertus Franke Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:54:30 -0400 The Rice paper solved this reasonably elegant. Reservation and check after a while. If you didn't use reserved memory, you loose it, this is the auto promotion/demotion. I keep seeing this Rice stuff being mentioned over and over, can someone post a URL pointer to this work? - 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/