From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4t16i2$m7o67@orsmga001.jf.intel.com> From: "Chen, Kenneth W" Subject: RE: [RFD hugetlbfs] strict accounting and wasteful reservations Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:40:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1145036008.10795.122.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: 'Adam Litke' Cc: 'David Gibson' , akpm@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Adam Litke wrote on Friday, April 14, 2006 10:33 AM > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 18:55 -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > Arbitrary offset isn't that bad, here is the patch that I forward port to > > 2.6.17-rc1. It is just 35 lines more. Another thing I can do is to put > > the variable region tracking code into a library function, maybe that will > > help to move it along? I'm with Adam, I don't like to see hugetlbfs have > > yet another uncommon behavior. > > Thanks Ken. The patch passes the libhugetlbfs test suite and also works > as advertised for sparse mappings. I don't recall, is this the version > you and David were converging on before Dave's patch was merged? I seem > to remember a few iterations of this patch centered locking discussions, > etc. Adam, yes, this is the latest rev includes all the comments from David. - Ken -- 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