--On 25 March 2004 15:51 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > I think it's simply: > > - Make normal overcommit logic skip hugepages completely > > - Teach the overcommit_memory=2 logic that hugepages are basically > "pinned", so subtract them from the arithmetic. > > And that's it. The hugepages are semantically quite different from normal > memory (prefaulted, preallocated, unswappable) and we've deliberately > avoided pretending otherwise. True currently. Though the thread that prompted this was in response to the time taken for this prefault and for the wish to fault them. I'll have a poke about at it and see how small I can make it. -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Mar 25 19:08:37 2004
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