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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 07:00:11PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Gibson wrote:> > > Well, the COW patch implements a fault handler, obviously. What > > specifically where you thinking about?> > About a fault handler of course and about surrounding scalability issues. > I worked on some hugepage related patches last fall. Have you had a look > at the work of Ken, Ray and me on the subject? I'm still not at all sure what you're getting at. Do you mean the demand-allocation patches which were floating around at some point - I gather they're important for doing sensible NUMA allocation of hugepages. They have a small overlap with the COW code, in the fault handler, but not much. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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