From: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: 'David Gibson' <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
akpm@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: RE: [RFD hugetlbfs] strict accounting and wasteful reservations
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:33:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145036008.10795.122.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4t153d$lv444@azsmga001.ch.intel.com>
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 18:55 -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> Arbitrary offset isn't that bad, here is the patch that I forward port to
> 2.6.17-rc1. It is just 35 lines more. Another thing I can do is to put
> the variable region tracking code into a library function, maybe that will
> help to move it along? I'm with Adam, I don't like to see hugetlbfs have
> yet another uncommon behavior.
Thanks Ken. The patch passes the libhugetlbfs test suite and also works
as advertised for sparse mappings. I don't recall, is this the version
you and David were converging on before Dave's patch was merged? I seem
to remember a few iterations of this patch centered locking discussions,
etc.
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Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-14 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-13 17:36 Adam Litke
2006-04-13 19:18 ` 'David Gibson'
2006-04-13 19:51 ` Adam Litke
2006-04-13 20:01 ` 'David Gibson'
2006-04-13 20:06 ` Adam Litke
2006-04-13 21:32 ` 'David Gibson'
2006-04-14 1:55 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-04-14 17:33 ` Adam Litke [this message]
2006-04-14 17:40 ` Chen, Kenneth W
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