From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15690.10852.935317.603783@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:44:52 -0700 Subject: Re: large page patch In-Reply-To: <868823061.1028244804@[10.10.2.3]> References: <15690.9727.831144.67179@napali.hpl.hp.com> <868823061.1028244804@[10.10.2.3]> Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" , 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 List-ID: >>>>> On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 23:33:26 -0700, "Martin J. Bligh" said: DaveM> In my opinion the proposed large-page patch addresses a DaveM> relatively pressing need for databases (primarily). >> DaveM> Databases want large pages with IPC_SHM, how can this special DaveM> syscal hack address that? >> I believe the interface is OK in that regard. AFAIK, Oracle is >> happy with it. Martin> Is Oracle now the world's only database? I think not. I didn't say such a thing. I just don't know what other db vendors/authors think of the proposed interface. I'm sure their feedback would be welcome. --david -- 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/