On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:02:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:49:25 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > page structs are not guaranteed to be contiguous for gigantic pages. The > > June 2014. That's a long lurk time for a bug. I wonder if some later > commit revealed it. I would suggest that gigantic pages have not seen much use. Certainly performance with Intel CPUs on benchmarks that I've been involved with showed lower performance with 1GB pages than with 2MB pages until quite recently.
