Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:49:50 +0300 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: powerpc: Actively close unused htlb regions on vma close |
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:08:27PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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.
Yes, but there's not much that can be done about that.
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