* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> [2012-08-23 08:56:34]:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 08:01 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:59 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[email protected]> > > > > > > * PMD flaging is not required in powerpc since large pages > > > are tracked in ptes. > > > * Yet to be tested with large pages > > > * This is an initial patch that partially works > > > * knuma_scand and numa hinting page faults works > > > * Page migration is yet to be observed/verified > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[email protected]> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> > > > > I don't like this. > > What I mean here is that it's fine as a proof of concept ;-) I don't > like it being in a series aimed at upstream... I agree. My intend was to get the ppc64 discussions started and also see what it takes to get autonuma to a new arch. > We can try to flush out the issues, but as it is, the patch isn't > upstreamable imho. Yes. The patch is still in RFC phase and good only for review/testing. > As for finding PTE bits, I have a few ideas we need to discuss, but > nothing simple I'm afraid. Sure Ben, lets try them and find the better fit. --Vaidy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
