Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:00:10 -0600 | From | Ray Bryant <> | Subject | Re: page migration patchset |
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> > You need lazy hugetlbfs to use it (= allocate at page fault time, > not mmap time). Otherwise the policy can never be applied. I implemented > my own version of lazy allocation for SLES9, but when I wanted to > merge it into mainline some other people told they had a much better > singing&dancing lazy hugetlb patch. So I waited for them, but they > never went forward with their stuff and their code seems to be dead > now. So this is still a dangling end :/ > > If nothing happens soon regarding the "other" hugetlb code I will > forward port my SLES9 code. It already has NUMA policy support.
Andi,
I too have been frustrated by this process. I think Christoph Lameter at SGI is looking at forward porting the "old" lazy hugetlbpage allocation code. Of course, the proof is in the "doing" of this and I am not sure what other priorities he has at the moment.
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