On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > By the way, in compiling that list of "special" architectures, > > I was surprised not to find ia64 amongst them. Not that it > > matters to me, but I thought the Fujitsu guys were usually > > keen on Itanium - do they realize that the special test is > > excluding it, or do they have their own special patch for it? > > I don't understand your question. Are you asking whether they > know your patch will not enable zero pages on ia64? That's what I was meaning to ask, yes; but wondering whether perhaps they've already got their own patch to enable pte_special on ia64, and just haven't got around to sending it in yet. > > I guess pte special was primarily driven by gup_fast, which in > turn was driven primarily by DB2 9.5, which I think might be > only available on x86 and ibm's architectures. > > But I admit to being a curious as to when I'll see a gup_fast > patch come out of SGI or HP or Fujitsu :) Yes, me too! Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
