[openib-general] [PATCH] huge pages support

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Sun Aug 20 09:02:14 PDT 2006


    Roland> Sure, you are building the OFED release so you can put
    Roland> whatever you want into it.

...although maybe it would be a good idea to follow the approach of
the second patch posted, and make multiple get_user_pages() calls,
skipping along by HPAGE_SIZE.

This avoids having all the extra work of follow_hugetlb_page()
creating extra fake pages and then calling put_page() many times.

 - R.




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