Re: Hugepages demand paging V1 [3/4]: Overcommit handling

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 06:27:06 EST


On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:16:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> I thought that was the state of the art for hugetlb pages already?

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:21:01AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Only vacuously so, for mainline is not handling hugetlb faults.
> The real impediment to all this is that no one is bothering to dredge
> up architecture manuals for the architectures they're touching to
> create plausible equivalents of update_mmu_cache(), clear_dcache_page()
> (not considered by Lameter's patches at all), et al for hugetlb.

flush_dcache_page(), sorry.


-- wli
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