From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:11:26 -0500 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Shared Page Tables [0/2] Message-ID: <200ED4FEFEB8AA8427120DE7@[10.1.1.4]> In-Reply-To: References: <1144685588.570.35.camel@wildcat.int.mccr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hugh Dickins , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management , Adam Litke , wli@holomorphy.com List-ID: --On Monday, April 10, 2006 10:22:34 -0700 Christoph Lameter wrote: >> Here's a new cut of the shared page table patch. I divided it into >> two patches. The first one just fleshes out the >> pxd_page/pxd_page_kernel macros across the architectures. The >> second one is the main patch. >> (...) > > Could you break out the locking changes to huge pages? The lock changes to hugetlb are only to support sharing of pmd pages when they contain hugetlb pages. They just substitute the struct page lock for the page_table_lock, and are only about 30 lines of code. Is this really worth separating out? Dave McCracken -- 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