From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBDMCK76004459 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:12:20 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id lBDMCK2R450188 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:12:20 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lBDMCJLS016323 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:12:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl From: Adam Litke In-Reply-To: <20071213074156.GA17526@us.ibm.com> References: <20071213074156.GA17526@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:14:41 -0600 Message-Id: <1197584081.16157.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, apw@shadowen.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 23:41 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Acked-by: Adam Litke > --- > Andrew, since 2.6.24 would be the first release with the dynamic_pool > sysctl, I think these might deserve consideration for inclusion, even so > late in the cycle? It all depends on how close to an (important?) > user-space visible change removing the sysctl might be in 2.6.25? > Obviously pending comments, acks, nacks from Adam et al. Also tested on powerpc. I do think this is a more comprehensive interface and would advocate a conversion to it in time for 2.6.24 if possible. -- Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com) IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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