Re: [-mm PATCH v4 00/18] get_user_pages() for dax pte and pmd mappings

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Dan,
>
[..]
> What about space for page tables?
> Page tables(mapping all memory in PMEM to virtual address space) may
> also consume significantly DRAM space if  huge page is not enabled or
> split.
> Should we also consider to allocate pte page tables from PMEM in future?

On x86_64 these ranges are covered by gigabyte pages by default (see
init_memory_mapping()).  I don't see much incremental benefit from
allocating pte's from pmem.

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