From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:15:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: large page patch Message-ID: <20020802071513.GI25038@holomorphy.com> References: <15690.9727.831144.67179@napali.hpl.hp.com> <868823061.1028244804@[10.10.2.3]> <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D4A3002.FFED947E@zip.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" 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 List-ID: 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 -- 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/