In a search of the archives, it appears huge page support in one form or another has been a discussion topic in almost every LSF/MM gathering. Based on patches submitted this past year, huge pages is still an area of active development. And, it appears this level of activity will continue in the coming year. I propose a "Huge Page Futures" session to discuss large works in progress as well as work people are considering for 2016. Areas of discussion would minimally include: - Krill Shutemov's THP new refcounting code and the push for huge page support in the page cache. - Matt Wilcox's huge page support in DAX enabled filesystems, but perhaps more interesting is the desire for supporting PUD pages. This seems to beg the question of supporting transparent PUD pages elsewhere. - Other suggestions? My interest in attending also revolves around huge pages. This past year I have added functionality to hugetlbfs. hugetlbfs is not dead, and is very much in use by some DB implementations. Proposed future work I will be attempting includes: - Adding userfaultfd support to hugetlbfs - Adding shared page table (PMD) support to DAX much like that which exists for hugetlbfs -- Mike Kravetz -- 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
