On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 10:30:14AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote: > Hey, David, > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 12:44:38PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > There are roughly two categories of page table walkers we have: > > > > 1) We actually only want to walk present folios (to be precise, page > > ranges of folios). We should look into moving away from the walk the > > page walker API where possible, and have something better that > > directly gives us the folio (page ranges). Any PTE batching would be > > done internally. This seems like a good direction for some users as well to me. If we can reduce the number of places touching the pud/pmd/pte APIs that is a nice abstraction to reach toward. It naturally would remove hugepte users too. Jason
