On 14.10.2006 [19:08:26 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:27:42PM -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:26 -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > > > > > Instead of creating the shared mapping of size memsz (aligned), we're > > > going to make it only filesz + non-zero BSS (we've found that glibc > > > initializes stdin, stdout, stderr before we get control). Reducing the > > > size of the shared mapping should result in less reserved hugepages. > > > > elflink: Reduce the shared mapping to filesz + non-zero BSS. This should > > decrease the number of huge pages we reserve. > > > > --- > > This patch is an RFC. We need to test thoroughly before committing. > > Not particularly more than any other patch, I think. The semantics > here are all pretty well defined, and I think it's pretty clear > there's no need to SHARED map the pages if we're not going to write to > them.
True, and I don't think Steve was trying to suggest testing more than we normally do (even if it doesn't seem like much right now :) Just that it shouldn't be committed before all the test cases we have are examined. Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
