From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/vmalloc: Hugepage vmalloc mappings
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:02:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200414130203.GA20867@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1586864403.0qfilei2ft.astroid@bobo.none>
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:13:44PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Which case? Usually the answer would be because you don't want to use
> contiguous physical memory and/or you don't want to use the linear
> mapping.
But with huge pages you do by definition already use large contiguous
areas. So you want allocations larger than "small" huge pages but not
using gigantic pages using vmalloc?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-14 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 12:52 [PATCH v2 0/4] huge vmalloc mappings Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc_to_page for huge vmap mappings Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-13 13:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-14 11:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: Move ioremap page table mapping function to mm/ Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: HUGE_VMAP arch query functions cleanup Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/vmalloc: Hugepage vmalloc mappings Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-13 13:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-14 11:39 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-14 12:28 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-04-14 14:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-14 7:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-14 12:13 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-14 13:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-04-14 14:48 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-15 10:47 ` Will Deacon
2020-04-16 2:38 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-07-01 7:10 ` Zefan Li
2020-07-03 0:15 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-07-20 2:02 ` Zefan Li
2020-07-20 2:49 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-14 0:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] huge " David Rientjes
2020-04-14 12:23 ` Nicholas Piggin
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