From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: FW: [PATCH 0/3] Demand faulting for huge pages From: Rohit Seth In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:28:37 -0700 Message-Id: <1128720518.32679.15.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: hugh@veritas.com, agl@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org List-ID: 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org