On 28.05.22 00:58, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Lazy page table copying at fork time was introduced with commit
> d992895ba2b2 ("Lazy page table copies in fork()"). At the time,
> hugetlb was very new and did not support page faulting. As a result,
> it was excluded. When full page fault support was added for hugetlb,
> the exclusion was not removed.
>
> Simply remove the check that prevents lazy copying of hugetlb page
> tables at fork. Of course, like other mappings this only applies to
> shared mappings.
>
> Lazy page table copying at fork will be less advantageous for hugetlb
> mappings because:
> - There are fewer page table entries with hugetlb
> - hugetlb pmds can be shared instead of copied
>
> In any case, completely eliminating the copy at fork time shold speed
> things up.
+ make hugetlb less special, at least a tiny little bit
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
