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

[Ray Bryant]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:26:42PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > Hugetlb demand paging has been part of SuSE SLES 9 for awhile now and
> > this patchset is intended to help hugetlb demand paging also get into
> > the official Linux kernel. Huge pages are referred to as "compound"
> > pages in terms of "struct page" in the Linux kernel. The term
>
> "compund page" may be used alternatively to huge page.
>
> This may very well explain why SLES9 is triplefaulting when Oracle
> tries to use hugetlb on it on x86-64.
>
> Since all this is clearly malfunctioning and not done anywhere near
> carefully enough, can I at least get *some* sanction to do any of this
> differently?
>
>
> -- wli
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How differently?  What do you have in mind?

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