On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 07:14:14PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > Unfortunately not because we still need to map the pages in the modules > area which is essentially a subset of vmalloc address space. Why wouldn't we be doing that once per 2 MB page? > > > If I have time (hah! big if :) I'll see if I can cook up a patchset that > > combines our two approaches over the weekend. > > Now there is also an interest about unmapped allocations from KVM folks, so > I might continue pursuing unmapped allocator, probably just without a new > GFP flag and hooks into page allocator. Cool - it does seem like a generally valuable capability :)