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

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 12:17:20 EST


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, David Gibson wrote:

> I wish we could start calling this "lazy allocation" instead of
> "demand paging". "Demand paging" makes people think of swapping
> hugepages, or mapping files on real filesystems with hugepages, which
> is not what these patches do, and probably something we don't want to
> do.

Good idea.

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