Re: [PATCH] [2/18] Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs

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Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 - 4:22 pm

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 02:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
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I'd like to avoid assuming the huge page size is some multiple of MB.
PowerPC will have a 64KB huge page.  Granted, you do fix this in a later
patch, so as long as the whole series goes together this shouldn't cause
a problem.


Since mask can always be derived from order, is there a reason we don't
always calculate it?  I guess it boils down to storage cost vs.
calculation cost and I don't feel too strongly either way.

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Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center

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[PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Mar 16, 9:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Paul Jackson, (Mon Mar 17, 5:26 am)
[PATCH] [17/18] Add huge pud support to mm/memory.c, Andi Kleen, (Sun Mar 16, 9:58 pm)
[PATCH] [16/18] Add huge pud support to hugetlbfs, Andi Kleen, (Sun Mar 16, 9:58 pm)
[PATCH] [14/18] Clean up hugetlb boot time printk, Andi Kleen, (Sun Mar 16, 9:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [14/18] Clean up hugetlb boot time printk, Mel Gorman, (Tue Mar 18, 12:37 pm)
[PATCH] [8/18] Add a __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic, Andi Kleen, (Sun Mar 16, 9:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [8/18] Add a __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic, Mel Gorman, (Tue Mar 18, 11:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] [2/18] Add basic support for more than one hstat..., Adam Litke, (Mon Mar 17, 4:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Paul Jackson, (Mon Mar 17, 1:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Andi Kleen, (Mon Mar 17, 2:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Paul Jackson, (Sun Mar 16, 11:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Andi Kleen, (Mon Mar 17, 3:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Paul Jackson, (Mon Mar 17, 3:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Andi Kleen, (Mon Mar 17, 3:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Adam Litke, (Mon Mar 17, 11:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Andi Kleen, (Mon Mar 17, 11:33 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support, Adam Litke, (Mon Mar 17, 11:59 am)