Re: RFC: COW for hugepages

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 09:35:45 EST



> Implementing this for ppc64 only is just wrong. Before you do this
> I would suggest to factor out the common code in the various hugetlbpage
> implementations and then implement it in common code.

I could say a similar thing about your i386 specific largepage modifications
in the NUMA api :)

We should probably look at making lots of the arch specific hugetlb code
common but im not sure we want that to become a prerequisite for merging
NUMA API and hugepage COW.

Anton
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