Excerpts from Christoph Hellwig's message of April 14, 2020 11:02 pm: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:13:44PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> Which case? Usually the answer would be because you don't want to use >> contiguous physical memory and/or you don't want to use the linear >> mapping. > > But with huge pages you do by definition already use large contiguous > areas. So you want allocations larger than "small" huge pages but not > using gigantic pages using vmalloc? Yes. Thanks, Nick
