* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2012-08-23 08:56:34]: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 08:01 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:59 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > * PMD flaging is not required in powerpc since large pages > > > are tracked in ptes. > > > * Yet to be tested with large pages > > > * This is an initial patch that partially works > > > * knuma_scand and numa hinting page faults works > > > * Page migration is yet to be observed/verified > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > I don't like this. > > What I mean here is that it's fine as a proof of concept ;-) I don't > like it being in a series aimed at upstream... I agree. My intend was to get the ppc64 discussions started and also see what it takes to get autonuma to a new arch. > We can try to flush out the issues, but as it is, the patch isn't > upstreamable imho. Yes. The patch is still in RFC phase and good only for review/testing. > As for finding PTE bits, I have a few ideas we need to discuss, but > nothing simple I'm afraid. Sure Ben, lets try them and find the better fit. --Vaidy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>