Re: Hugepages demand paging V2 [0/8]: Discussion and overview

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:35 am, Robin Holt wrote:
>> One other feature of the BTE is it can operate asynchronously from
>> the cpu.  This could be used to, during a clock interrupt, schedule
>> additional huge page zero filling on multiple nodes at the same time.
>> This could result in a huge speed boost on machines that have multiple
>> memory only nodes.  That has not been tested thoroughly.  We have done
>> considerable testing of the page zero functionality as well as the
>> error handling.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:44:21AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Might be worth some additional testing...

And an architecture method for hugepage clearing.


-- wli
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