From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from thermo.lanl.gov (thermo.lanl.gov [128.165.59.202]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11/(ccn-5)) with SMTP id jA4Lp78Z016735 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:51:07 -0700 Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 Message-Id: <20051104215103.E5C6C18476F@thermo.lanl.gov> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:51:03 -0700 (MST) From: andy@thermo.lanl.gov (Andy Nelson) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: gmaxwell@gmail.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, arjanv@infradead.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com, kravetz@us.ibm.com, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, mingo@elte.hu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org List-ID: Hi folks, It sound like in principle I (`I'=generic HPC person) could be happy with this sort of solution. The proof of the pudding is in the eating however, and various perversions and misunderstanding can still always crop up. Hopefully they can be solved or avoided if the do show up though. Also, other folk might not be so satisfied. I'll let them speak for themselves though. One issue remaining is that I don't know how this hugetlbfs stuff that was discussed actually works or should work, in terms of the interface to my code. What would work for me is something to the effect of f90 -flag_that_turns_access_to_big_pages_on code.f That then substitutes in allocation calls to this hugetlbfs zone instead of `normal' allocation calls to generic memory, and perhaps lets me fall back to normal memory up to whatever system limits may exist if no big pages are available. Or even something more simple like setenv HEY_OS_I_WANT_BIG_PAGES_FOR_MY_JOB or alternatively, a similar request in a batch script. I don't know that any of these things really have much to do with the OS directly however. Thanks all, and have a good weekend. Andy -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org