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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, 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?

The current SUSE implementation is a different implementation and has
severe limitations. They need a different implementation and
the suggestion was made to start with Ken's patches.
What would you like to do differently?
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