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On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:17 +, Eric B Munson wrote:
> Having overcommit pages makes the heap-overflow test fail, this patch
> uses the function introduces earlier to set the overcommit pool to 0.
> This forces this test to be run as root only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 17:43 +, Eric B Munson wrote:
> + env = getenv("HUGETLB_MINIMAL_COPY");
> + if (__hugetlb_opts.min_copy && env && (strcasecmp(env, "no") == 0)) {
> + DEBUG("HUGETLB_MINIMAL_COPY=%s, disabling filesz copy "
> + "optimization\n", env);
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:55:31AM +, Mel Gorman wrote:
> It has been asserted that the name get_huge_pages() implies the API is
> a close-to-kernel interface for allocating hugepages and nothing else.
> In 2.1-preX, this definition does not fit as it allows fallback to base pages
> for example
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The get_huge_pages() API is a close-to-kernel interface for the direct
> allocation of hugepages. This forces the caller to deal with alignment and
> fallback to base pages where suitable. For the casual user of hugepages
> that does not
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:55:30AM +, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There has been some disagreement on what the exact purpose of get_huge_pages()
> is. It was felt that the interface name implied that it dealt strictly with
> hugepages. This was reinforced by the fact in 2.0 that the length parameter
>
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:55:33AM +, Mel Gorman wrote:
> In the situation a caller allocates multiple buffers with
> get_hugepage_region(), all the buffers will align to the start of the
> hugepage. This means the buffers are almost certainly using the same
> cachelines and operations like cop
