From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: gh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, akpm@zip.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com,
asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Subject: Re: large page patch
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 23:33:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868823061.1028244804@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15690.9727.831144.67179@napali.hpl.hp.com>
> DaveM> In my opinion the proposed large-page patch addresses a
> DaveM> relatively pressing need for databases (primarily).
>
> DaveM> Databases want large pages with IPC_SHM, how can this
> DaveM> special syscal hack address that?
>
> I believe the interface is OK in that regard. AFAIK, Oracle is happy
> with it.
Is Oracle now the world's only database? I think not.
> DaveM> It's great for experimentation, but give up syscall slots
> DaveM> for this?
>
> I'm a bit concerned about this, too. My preference would have been to
> use the regular mmap() and shmat() syscalls with some
> augmentation/hint as to what the preferred page size is
I think that's what most users would prefer, and I don't think it
adds a vast amount of kernel complexity. Linus doesn't seem to
be dead set against the shmem modifications at least ... so that's
half way there ;-)
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 0:37 Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 0:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 1:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 1:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 1:55 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-02 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 2:29 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-02 2:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 2:53 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-02 5:24 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 5:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 6:26 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 6:33 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-08-02 6:44 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 10:00 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-02 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 7:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-02 8:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 9:05 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-08-02 9:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 12:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-02 15:27 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 1:09 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-02 1:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 4:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-02 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 3:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-02 23:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-08-02 1:34 Seth, Rohit
2002-08-02 19:31 Seth, Rohit
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