Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I am also interested in this discussion. We had some nice challenge w.r.t to powerpc implementation of THP. > > - 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. > I am also looking at switching powerpc hugetlbfs to GENERAL_HUGETLB. To support 16GB pages I would need hugepage at PUD/PGD. Can you elaborate why supporting huge PUD page is a challenge ? -aneesh -- 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
