RFC: Hugepage COW

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Jul 8 12:44:31 EST 2005


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 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"

Oops.. yes, indeed.

> > pages for hugepages.

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