Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:12:59 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [3/4]: Overcommit handling |
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:58:26PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> Changelog >> * overcommit handling
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:01:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > overcommit for huge pages sounds like a realy bad idea. Care to explain > why you want it?
It's the opposite of what its name implies; it implements strict non-overcommit, in the sense that it tries to prevent the sum of possible hugetlb allocations arising from handling hugetlb faults from exceeding the size of the hugetlb memory pool.
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