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From: "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@linux.com>
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 09:51:02AM -0800, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
>> Can we come up with a design that uses a huge page (or some arbitrary page
>> size) and the breaks out portions of the large page? That way potentially
>> TLB use can be reduced (multiple sections of a large page use the same TLB)
>> and defragmentation occurs because allocs and frees focus on a selection of
>> large memory sections.
>
> Could I trouble you to reply in this thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Za6RXtSE_TSdrRm_@casper.infradead.org/
> where I actually outline what I think we should do next.

Ahh... ok. Will do.