From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:08:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: powerpc: Actively close unused htlb regions on vma close In-Reply-To: <1149281841.9693.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1149257287.9693.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1149281841.9693.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Adam Litke Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Gibson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Adam Litke wrote: > The real reason I want to "close" hugetlb regions (even on 64bit > platforms) is so a process can replace a previous hugetlb mapping with > normal pages when huge pages become scarce. An example would be the > hugetlb morecore (malloc) feature in libhugetlbfs :) Well that approach wont work on IA64 it seems. -- 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