From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>,
davidm@hpl.hp.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>gh@us.ibm.com,
riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com,
asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Subject: Re: large page patch
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:15:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020802071513.GI25038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au>
At some point in the past, Dave Miller wrote:
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
DaveM> special syscal hack address that?
At some point in the past, David Mosberger wrote:
I believe the interface is OK in that regard. AFAIK, Oracle is happy
with it.
"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
>> Is Oracle now the world's only database? I think not.
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:08:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Is a draft of Simon's patch available against 2.5?
Unless I can turn blood into wine, walk on water, and produce a working
2.5 version of the thing in < 6 hours (not that I'm not trying), this
will probably have to wait until Hubertus remeterializes tomorrow
morning (EDT) and further porting is done. I'll be up early.
Cheers,
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 0:37 Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 0:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 1:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 1:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 1:55 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-02 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 2:29 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-02 2:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 2:53 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-02 5:24 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 5:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 6:26 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 6:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-02 6:44 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 10:00 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-02 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 7:15 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-08-02 8:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 9:05 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-08-02 9:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 12:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-02 15:27 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 1:09 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-02 1:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 4:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-02 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 3:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-02 23:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-08-02 1:34 Seth, Rohit
2002-08-02 19:31 Seth, Rohit
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