RFC: Hugepage COW

Christoph Lameter christoph at lameter.com
Fri Jul 15 14:34:26 EST 2005


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Gibson wrote:

> I'm still not at all sure what you're getting at.  Do you mean the
> demand-allocation patches which were floating around at some point - I
> gather they're important for doing sensible NUMA allocation of
> hugepages.  They have a small overlap with the COW code, in the fault
> handler, but not much.

Yes I meant that. I do not have time right now but I will be trying to 
contribute to this if things slow down a bit. Keep me posted.





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