Re: RFC: Hugepage COW

From: David Gibson
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 22:04:23 EST


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:25PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:24:25 +1000 David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That's not necessarily possible. On some archs - ppc64 for one -
> > the mmu has to be set up for hugepages on a granularity greater than
> > the hugepage size. So you can just arbitrarily substitute normal
> ^^^
> presumably you meant "cannot"

Oops.. yes, indeed.

> > pages for hugepages.

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