From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MM: Support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB v2
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:28:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDC358F.6020905@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339542816-21663-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
(2012/06/13 8:13), Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen<ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> There was some desire in large applications using MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB
> to use 1GB huge pages on some mappings, and stay with 2MB on others. This
> is useful together with NUMA policy: use 2MB interleaving on some mappings,
> but 1GB on local mappings.
>
> This patch extends the IPC/SHM syscall interfaces slightly to allow specifying
> the page size.
>
> It borrows some upper bits in the existing flag arguments and allows encoding
> the log of the desired page size in addition to the *_HUGETLB flag.
> When 0 is specified the default size is used, this makes the change fully
> compatible.
>
> Extending the internal hugetlb code to handle this is straight forward. Instead
> of a single mount it just keeps an array of them and selects the right
> mount based on the specified page size.
>
> I also exported the new flags to the user headers
> (they were previously under __KERNEL__). Right now only symbols
> for x86 and some other architecture for 1GB and 2MB are defined.
> The interface should already work for all other architectures
> though.
>
> v2: Port to new tree. Fix unmount.
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen<ak@linux.intel.com>
I like this.
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
BTW, do you have any plan to implement 1GB page allocator ?
I wonder recent contiguous-memory-allocator works can be used for...
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From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MM: Support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB v2
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:28:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDC358F.6020905@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339542816-21663-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
(2012/06/13 8:13), Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen<ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> There was some desire in large applications using MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB
> to use 1GB huge pages on some mappings, and stay with 2MB on others. This
> is useful together with NUMA policy: use 2MB interleaving on some mappings,
> but 1GB on local mappings.
>
> This patch extends the IPC/SHM syscall interfaces slightly to allow specifying
> the page size.
>
> It borrows some upper bits in the existing flag arguments and allows encoding
> the log of the desired page size in addition to the *_HUGETLB flag.
> When 0 is specified the default size is used, this makes the change fully
> compatible.
>
> Extending the internal hugetlb code to handle this is straight forward. Instead
> of a single mount it just keeps an array of them and selects the right
> mount based on the specified page size.
>
> I also exported the new flags to the user headers
> (they were previously under __KERNEL__). Right now only symbols
> for x86 and some other architecture for 1GB and 2MB are defined.
> The interface should already work for all other architectures
> though.
>
> v2: Port to new tree. Fix unmount.
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen<ak@linux.intel.com>
I like this.
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
BTW, do you have any plan to implement 1GB page allocator ?
I wonder recent contiguous-memory-allocator works can be used for...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-16 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-12 23:13 [PATCH] MM: Support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB v2 Andi Kleen
2012-06-12 23:13 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-13 20:24 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-13 20:24 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-13 20:31 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-13 20:31 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-13 20:38 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-13 20:38 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-15 10:35 ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-15 10:35 ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-16 7:28 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki [this message]
2012-06-16 7:28 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
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