From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:45:01 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch Message-ID: <20021022134501.C20957@redhat.com> References: <2629464880.1035240956@[10.10.2.3]> <20021022131930.A20957@redhat.com> <396790000.1035308200@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <396790000.1035308200@flay>; from mbligh@aracnet.com on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:36:40AM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Rik van Riel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Bill Davidsen , Dave McCracken , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linux Memory Management List-ID: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:36:40AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Bear in mind that large pages are neither swap backed or file backed > (vetoed by Linus), for starters. There are other large app problem scenarios > apart from Oracle ;-) I think the fact that large page support doesn't support mmap for users that need it is utterly appauling; there are numerous places where it is needed. The requirement for root-only access makes it useless for most people, especially in HPC environments where it is most needed as such machines are usually shared and accounts are non-priveledged. -ben -- "Do you seek knowledge in time travel?" -- 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/