Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] contigous big page allocator | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:01:43 +0200 |
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> writes: > > What this wants to do: > allocates a contiguous chunk of pages larger than MAX_ORDER. > for device drivers (camera? etc..)
I think to really move forward you need a concrete use case actually implemented in tree.
> My intention is not for allocating HUGEPAGE(> MAX_ORDER).
I still believe using this for 1GB pages would be one of the more interesting use cases.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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