RFC: Hugepage COW

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Jul 7 22:53:25 EST 2005


On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:24:25 +1000 David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> 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"

> pages for hugepages.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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