Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread Mel Gorman
On (01/07/08 10:29), David Gibson didst pronounce: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:29:01PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > On (30/06/08 14:23), Nishanth Aravamudan didst pronounce: > > > On 30.06.2008 [16:12:20 -0500], Jon Tollefson wrote: > > > > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently ex

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:29:01PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On (30/06/08 14:23), Nishanth Aravamudan didst pronounce: > > On 30.06.2008 [16:12:20 -0500], Jon Tollefson wrote: > > > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > > > > large pages

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:21:38PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 30.06.2008 [16:53:31 +0100], Mel Gorman wrote: > > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc > > malloc() nor is it

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread Mel Gorman
On (30/06/08 14:23), Nishanth Aravamudan didst pronounce: > On 30.06.2008 [16:12:20 -0500], Jon Tollefson wrote: > > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > > > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use > > > glib

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 30.06.2008 [16:12:20 -0500], Jon Tollefson wrote: > Mel Gorman wrote: > > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc > > malloc() nor is it always desirable to back malloc() with huge page

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 30.06.2008 [16:53:31 +0100], Mel Gorman wrote: > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc > malloc() nor is it always desirable to back malloc() with huge pages. There > exists a requireme

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Provide a direct allocator API for huge pages V3

2008-06-30 Thread Jon Tollefson
Mel Gorman wrote: > HUGETLB_MORECORE currently exists to allow glibc to back malloc() with > large pages instead of small pages. However, not all applications use glibc > malloc() nor is it always desirable to back malloc() with huge pages. There > exists a requirement that a hugepage-aware applica