From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Adam Litke'" <agl@us.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <ak@suse.de>, <christoph@lameter.com>, <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC] Demand faulting for large pages
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:05:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508052105.j75L5jg31470@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123255298.3121.46.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Adam Litke wrote on Friday, August 05, 2005 8:22 AM
> Below is a patch to implement demand faulting for huge pages. The main
> motivation for changing from prefaulting to demand faulting is so that
> huge page allocations can follow the NUMA API. Currently, huge pages
> are allocated round-robin from all NUMA nodes.
Do users of hugetlb going to accept the fact that now app will SIGBUS
when there aren't enough free hugetlb pages present at the time of fault?
It's not very nice though, but is that the general consensus?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-05 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-05 15:21 Adam Litke
2005-08-05 15:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 16:37 ` Adam Litke
2005-08-05 16:47 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 17:00 ` Adam Litke
2005-08-05 17:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 17:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-05 21:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2005-08-05 21:35 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 21:33 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-08-05 22:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-08-08 22:16 ` Adam Litke
2005-08-08 22:36 ` Chen, Kenneth W
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