From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Transparent Hugepage support
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:18:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028171855.GU7744@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256749015.5613.31.camel@aglitke>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:56:55AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote:
> > I think you need some user visible interfaces to cleanly handle existing
> > reservations on a process base at least, otherwise you'll completely break
> > their semantics.
>
> But we already handle explicit hugepages (with page pools and strict
> reservations) via hugetlbfs and libhugetlbfs. It seems you're just
> making an argument for keeping these around (which I certainly agree
> with).
That would require not supporting reservations through the transparent
mechanism. That wouldn't be very nice semantics, because you end up
with "glass jaw" performance always in the transparent case.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 18:51 Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-27 15:41 ` Rik van Riel
2009-10-27 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-27 19:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28 4:28 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 12:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28 14:18 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 14:54 ` Adam Litke
2009-10-28 15:13 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 15:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-29 15:59 ` Dave Hansen
2009-10-31 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-28 15:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28 16:03 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 16:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 16:56 ` Adam Litke
2009-10-28 17:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-10-28 19:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28 19:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-29 9:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-29 10:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-29 16:50 ` Mike Travis
2009-10-30 0:40 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-03 10:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-11-04 0:36 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-29 12:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-27 20:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-27 18:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-27 20:25 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-29 18:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-01 10:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-29 18:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-31 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-11-03 11:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-11-03 19:10 ` Dave Hansen
2009-11-04 4:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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