On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:37:04AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 10.10.2006 [17:24:07 +1000], David Gibson wrote:
> > This time commit c3f4d10a80d6ad8bb37ef6f80e70c3c7d778117a. The goal
> > noted in the comment of avoiding normal page mappings in the same
> > segment as the hugepage bss is all very laudable, but this has the
> > side effect of requiring up to 15 more hugepages for the program than
> > might otherwise be needed. Ouch.
>
> Yes, this is sub-optimal. But the alternative was to have a library
> which we knew would not work for certain applications. We have a
> post-1.0 solution in the works, fwiw, but it will require a bit of time
> to get done.
Ok.. tell me more about this proposed approach. At present, with the
amount of memory in my test machine, this patch means that a great
many of the testcases fail.
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