From: "Ray Bryant" <raybry@mpdtxmail.amd.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, christoph@lameter.com,
kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Demand faunting for huge pages
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:29:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508181029.01238.raybry@mpdtxmail.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050818003302.GE7103@localhost.localdomain>
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 19:33, David Gibson wrote:
>
> Strict accounting leads to nicer behaviour in some cases - you'll tend
> to die early rather than late - but it seems an awful lot of work for
> a fairly small improvement in behaviour.
>
The last time we went around on this (April 2004?) Andrew thought that adding
demand allocation for hugetlb pages without strict accounting was effectively
an ABI change -- in the current approach the mmap() will fail if you ask for
too many hugetlb pages whilst in the demand fault approach you will get
SIGBUS at a later point in time. At one time this was considered serious
enough to fix.
Andy Whitcroft provided some code for the patch that Ken and I did back in
April 2004 time frame. I can't find that one but the following patch from
Christoph Lameter appears to be the code. The idea is that at mmap() time
a strict reservation is made that guarantees the necessary number of
hugetlb pages is available.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109842250714489&w=2
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-18 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-17 18:56 Adam Litke
2005-08-17 19:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86-pte_huge Adam Litke
2005-08-17 19:18 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-17 19:27 ` Adam Litke
2005-08-17 19:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86-move-stale-pgtable Adam Litke
2005-08-17 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86-walk-check Adam Litke
2005-08-17 19:41 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-17 19:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] htlb-fault Adam Litke
2005-08-17 21:04 ` [PATCH 0/4] Demand faunting for huge pages Andi Kleen
2005-08-18 0:33 ` David Gibson
2005-08-18 0:35 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-18 20:33 ` Adam Litke
2005-08-18 15:29 ` Ray Bryant [this message]
2005-08-18 20:29 ` Adam Litke
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