On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:05:28 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It brings thp support for ramfs, but without mmap() -- it will be posted > separately. We were never going to do this :( Has anyone reviewed these patches much yet? > Please review and consider applying. It appears rather too immature at this stage. > Intro > ----- > > The goal of the project is preparing kernel infrastructure to handle huge > pages in page cache. > > To proof that the proposed changes are functional we enable the feature > for the most simple file system -- ramfs. ramfs is not that useful by > itself, but it's good pilot project. At the very least we should get this done for a real filesystem to see how intrusive the changes are and to evaluate the performance changes. Sigh. A pox on whoever thought up huge pages. Words cannot express how much of a godawful mess they have made of Linux MM. And it hasn't ended yet :( My take is that we'd need to see some very attractive and convincing real-world performance numbers before even thinking of taking this on. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
