Re: Hugepages demand paging V2 [0/8]: Discussion and overview

From: Ray Bryant (raybry_at_sgi.com)
Date: 10/27/04

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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

    William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:26:42PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
    >
    >>Hugetlb demand paging has been part of SuSE SLES 9 for awhile now and
    >>this patchset is intended to help hugetlb demand paging also get into
    >>the official Linux kernel. Huge pages are referred to as "compound"
    >>pages in terms of "struct page" in the Linux kernel. The term
    >
    > "compund page" may be used alternatively to huge page.
    >
    > This may very well explain why SLES9 is triplefaulting when Oracle
    > tries to use hugetlb on it on x86-64.
    >
    > Since all this is clearly malfunctioning and not done anywhere near
    > carefully enough, can I at least get *some* sanction to do any of this
    > differently?
    >
    >
    > -- wli
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    How differently? What do you have in mind? 

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Ray
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