On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 09:51:02AM -0800, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
Can we come up with a design that uses a huge page (or some arbitrary page
size) and the breaks out portions of the large page? That way potentially
TLB use can be reduced (multiple sections of a large page use the same TLB)
and defragmentation occurs because allocs and frees focus on a selection of
large memory sections.
Could I trouble you to reply in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Za6RXtSE_TSdrRm_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
where I actually outline what I think we should do next.
Ahh... ok. Will do.