From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:43:27 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 17/18] x86: add hugepagesz option on 64-bit Message-ID: <20080523104327.GG31727@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20080423015302.745723000@nick.local0.net> <20080423015431.462123000@nick.local0.net> <20080430204841.GD6903@us.ibm.com> <20080523054133.GO13071@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080523054133.GO13071@wotan.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, andi@firstfloor.org, kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com, abh@cray.com, wli@holomorphy.com List-ID: > For that matter, I'm almost inclined to submit the patchset with > only allow one active hstate specified on the command line, and no > changes to any sysctls... just to get the core code merged sooner ;) If you do that you don't really need to bother with the patchset. I had an earlier patch for GB pages in hugetlbfs that only supported a single page size and it was much much simpler. All the work just came from supporting multiple page sizes for binary compatibility. -Andi -- 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