On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, David Gibson wrote: > Now that the hugepage code has been consolidated across the > architectures, it becomes much easier to implement copy-on-write. > Hugepage COW is of limited utility of itself, however, it is > essentially a prerequisite for any of a number of methods of allowing > userland programs to automatically use hugepages without code changes > e.g. hugepage malloc() libraries, implicit hugepage mmap(), hugepage > ELF segments. For certain applications (particularly enormous HPC > FORTRAN programs), these can result in a large performance > improvement. > > Thoughts? Flames?
Great stuff. I am glad that you are cleaning up the hugepages and are making progress improving them. What are your thoughts on implementing fault handling for huge pages? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
