Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] Transparent huge pages: huge tmpfs

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:54:09PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I would like to attend LSF/MM this year; and most of all would like
> to join Kirill Shutemov in his discussion of THP refcounting etc.
> 
> I admit that I have not yet studied his refcounting patchset, but
> shall have done so by March.  I've been fully occupied these last
> few months with an alternative approach to THPage cache, huge tmpfs:
> starting from my belief that compound pages were ideal for hugetlbfs,
> questionable for anonymous THP, completely unsuited to THPage cache.
> 
> We shall try to work out how much we have in common, and where to go
> from there.
> 
> Huge tmpfs is currently implemented on Google's not-so-modern kernel.
> I intend to port it to v3.19 and post before LSF; but if that ends up
> like a night-before-the-conference dump of XXX patches, no, I'll spare
> you and spend more time looking at other people's work instead.

Very interesting! Looking forward for the code.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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