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Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null?

From Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null?
Date 2017-04-13 18:40 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:29:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> (Ideally we'd be able to take the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag into account to
> map a single huge page repeatedly, even lowering the populating cost,
> but AIUI of the current hugepage support it would be far from easy)

You could implement ->map_pages instead of (or as well as) ->fault, which
would lower your costs if that is a concern.  I think the eventual intent
is that map_pages would be able to populate a PMD or even a PUD.

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[RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null? Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-04-13 11:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null? Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-04-13 18:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null? Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 18:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null? Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-04-13 19:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null? Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-13 20:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC] Re: Costless huge virtual memory? /dev/same, /dev/null? Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-04-13 20:50 +0200

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