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Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if huge page cache enabled

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if huge page cache enabled
Date 2016-10-26 09:40 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 03:54:31PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The size of required pool depends on architecture: different architectures
> has different (huge page size)/(base page size).

Please explain first why they are required and not just nice to have.

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[PATCHv4 00/43] ext4: support of huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 02/43] radix tree test suite: Allow GFP_ATOMIC allocations to fail "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 34/43] ext4: handle huge pages in __ext4_block_zero_page_range() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 26/43] fs: make block_page_mkwrite() aware about huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 40/43] ext4: fix SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE for huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 42/43] mm, fs, ext4: expand use of page_mapping() and page_to_pgoff() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 41/43] ext4: make fallocate() operations work with huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 09/43] mm, rmap: account file thp pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 35/43] ext4: make ext4_block_write_begin() aware about huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 06/43] mm, shmem: swich huge tmpfs to multi-order radix-tree entries "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 36/43] ext4: handle huge pages in ext4_da_write_end() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 10/43] thp: try to free page's buffers before attempt split "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 11/43] thp: handle write-protection faults for file THP "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:20 +0200
  [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if huge page cache enabled "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if  huge page cache enabled Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-10-25 09:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if  huge page cache enabled "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-10-26 00:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if huge page cache enabled Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-10-26 06:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if  huge page cache enabled Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 09:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if  huge page cache enabled Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-10-26 09:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if  huge page cache enabled Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-10-26 09:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCHv4 18/43] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if  huge page cache enabled Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-10-26 09:40 +0200
  [PATCHv4 30/43] mm: account huge pages to dirty, writaback, reclaimable, etc. "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 31/43] ext4: make ext4_mpage_readpages() hugepage-aware "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 17/43] HACK: readahead: alloc huge pages, if allowed "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 20/43] mm: make write_cache_pages() work on huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 21/43] thp: introduce hpage_size() and hpage_mask() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 01/43] tools: Add WARN_ON_ONCE "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 08/43] page-flags: relax page flag policy for few flags "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 39/43] ext4: make EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT work with huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 32/43] ext4: make ext4_writepage() work on huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 13/43] filemap: allocate huge page in page_cache_read(), if allowed "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 28/43] truncate: make invalidate_inode_pages2_range() aware about huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 03/43] radix-tree: Add radix_tree_join "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 15/43] filemap: allocate huge page in pagecache_get_page(), if allowed "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 29/43] mm, hugetlb: switch hugetlbfs to multi-order radix-tree entries "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 23/43] thp: make thp_get_unmapped_area() respect S_HUGE_MODE "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCHv4 24/43] fs: make block_read_full_page() be able to read huge page "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-25 02:30 +0200

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