On 04/12/2010 04:39 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:33:50PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
So where does the pagetable go?
They're preallocated together with the hugepage and queued into the mm
to retain locality. This way a huge pmd can be converted to a regular
pmd pointing to the preallocated pte on the fly without GFP_KERNEL
allocations.
Oh. Well I hope this can be eliminated in the future somehow.
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