From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:08:51 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: Examining the Performance and Cost of Revesemaps on 2.5.26 Under Heavy DBWorkload Message-ID: <50520000.1032293331@flay> In-Reply-To: <3D878ADD.62BA2DF3@digeo.com> References: <3D878ADD.62BA2DF3@digeo.com> 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: Andrew Morton , Peter Wong Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, riel@nl.linux.org, wli@holomorphy.com, dmccr@us.ibm.com, gh@us.ibm.com, Bill Hartner , Troy C Wilson List-ID: > That's a ton of memory. Where do we stand wrt getting these > applications to use large-tlb pages? We need standard interfaces (like shmem) to get DB2 to port, and probably most other applications. Having magic system calls is all very well in theory, but not much use in practice. And yes, we're still working on it. M. -- 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/