From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4890C3A5.8050700@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:40:21 -0500 From: Christoph Lameter MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks References: <20080730014308.2a447e71.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080730172317.GA14138@csn.ul.ie> <20080730103407.b110afc2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080730193010.GB14138@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20080730193010.GB14138@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , Eric Munson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Hastings List-ID: Mel Gorman wrote: > With Erics patch and libhugetlbfs, we can automatically back text/data[1], > malloc[2] and stacks without source modification. Fairly soon, libhugetlbfs > will also be able to override shmget() to add SHM_HUGETLB. That should cover > a lot of the memory-intensive apps without source modification. So we are quite far down the road to having a VM that supports 2 page sizes 4k and 2M? -- 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