On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:54:09PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I would like to attend LSF/MM this year; and most of all would like > to join Kirill Shutemov in his discussion of THP refcounting etc. > > I admit that I have not yet studied his refcounting patchset, but > shall have done so by March. I've been fully occupied these last > few months with an alternative approach to THPage cache, huge tmpfs: > starting from my belief that compound pages were ideal for hugetlbfs, > questionable for anonymous THP, completely unsuited to THPage cache. > > We shall try to work out how much we have in common, and where to go > from there. > > Huge tmpfs is currently implemented on Google's not-so-modern kernel. > I intend to port it to v3.19 and post before LSF; but if that ends up > like a night-before-the-conference dump of XXX patches, no, I'll spare > you and spend more time looking at other people's work instead. Very interesting! Looking forward for the code. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- 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
