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From: Andi Kleen on 2 Jul 2010 04:40 On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:47:19PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > This is a patchset for hugepage migration. Thanks for working on this. > > There are many users of page migration such as soft offlining, > memory hotplug, memory policy and memory compaction, > but this patchset adds hugepage support only for soft offlining > as the first step. Is that simply because the callers are not hooked up yet for the other cases, or more fundamental issues? > I tested this patchset with 'make func' in libhugetlbfs and > have gotten the same result as one from 2.6.35-rc3. Is there a tester for the functionality too? (e.g. mce-test test cases) -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Naoya Horiguchi on 5 Jul 2010 04:50
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:30:26AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:47:19PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > > This is a patchset for hugepage migration. > > Thanks for working on this. > > > > There are many users of page migration such as soft offlining, > > memory hotplug, memory policy and memory compaction, > > but this patchset adds hugepage support only for soft offlining > > as the first step. > > Is that simply because the callers are not hooked up yet > for the other cases, or more fundamental issues? Yes, it's just underway. I hope we have no critical problems to implement other cases at the time. > > > I tested this patchset with 'make func' in libhugetlbfs and > > have gotten the same result as one from 2.6.35-rc3. > > Is there a tester for the functionality too? (e.g. mce-test test cases) Yes. I'll send patches on mce-test suite later. Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |