From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Radosław Smogura" <mail@smogura.eu>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, aarcange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Hugepages for shm page cache (defrag)
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:28:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pqlmy7z8.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107062131.01717.mail@smogura.eu> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Rados?= =?utf-8?Q?=C5=82aw?= Smogura"'s message of "Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:31:01 +0200")
Radosław Smogura <mail@smogura.eu> writes:
> Hello,
>
> This is may first try with Linux patch, so please do not blame me too much.
> Actually I started with small idea to add MAP_HUGTLB for /dev/shm but it grew
> up in something more like support for huge pages in page cache, but according
> to documentation to submit alpha-work too, I decided to send this.
Shouldn't this be rather integrated with the normal transparent huge
pages? It seems odd to develop parallel infrastructure.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-07 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 19:31 Radosław Smogura
2011-07-07 5:28 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-07-07 12:02 ` mail
2011-07-08 0:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-07-14 20:15 ` mail
2011-07-15 19:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-07-30 16:15 ` [PATCH] Changes how ref-count of compound pages are managed Radosław Smogura
2011-08-07 17:03 ` Hugepages for shm page cache (defrag) Radosław Smogura
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