Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:50:41 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: COW for hugepages |
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:27:48 +1000 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> > > Implementing this for ppc64 only is just wrong. Before you do this > > I would suggest to factor out the common code in the various hugetlbpage > > implementations and then implement it in common code. > > I could say a similar thing about your i386 specific largepage modifications > in the NUMA api :)
All they did was to modify the code to lazy faulting. That is architecture specific
(and add the mpol code, but that was pretty minor)
COW is a different thing though.
> > We should probably look at making lots of the arch specific hugetlb code > common but im not sure we want that to become a prerequisite for merging > NUMA API and hugepage COW.
That would just make the merging later harder. Making it common first and then adding features would be better.
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