From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:10:57 -0700 From: Bill Irwin Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] hugetlbfs read support Message-ID: <20070710161057.GW26380@holomorphy.com> References: <1184009291.31638.8.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070710091720.GA28371@infradead.org> <20070710152846.GD27655@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070710152846.GD27655@us.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Badari Pulavarty , Linux Memory Management , clameter@sgi.com, Bill Irwin , agl@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:28:46AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > I agree and sounds like something to bring up at KS (again?) or the > VM/FS summit. But, for now, hugetlbfs is the supported interface and > libhugetlbfs has run into this issue supporting one of its features. So > I would like to see this make it in. > Just my $0.02 as a libhuge developer. It should also be there to make it more like a normal filesystem, though your use case is of vastly higher priority than such concerns. As far as large pages for the generic VM/VFS, I cast my absentee vote(s) in favor of such, not that anyone gives a damn what I think. -- 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