From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:36:49 -0700 From: Bill Irwin Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] hugetlbfs read support Message-ID: <20070710153649.GU26380@holomorphy.com> References: <1184009291.31638.8.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070710091720.GA28371@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070710091720.GA28371@infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Badari Pulavarty , Linux Memory Management , nacc@us.ibm.com, clameter@sgi.com, Bill Irwin , agl@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:28:11PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote: >> This code is very similar to what do_generic_mapping_read() does, but >> I can't use it since it has PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumptions. Christoph >> Lamater's cleanup to pagecache would hopefully give me all of this. On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:17:20AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The code looks fine, but I really hate that we need it all all. We really > should make the general VM/FS code large page aware and get rid of this > whole hack called hugetlbfs.. That needs to be taken up with Linus. If it's any consolation, I'm in favor of such myself. -- wli -- 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