From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] Transparent huge pages: huge tmpfs
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:18:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150116121820.GA29085@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1501152301470.7987@eggly.anvils>
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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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-16 7:54 [LSF/MM ATTEND] Transparent huge pages: huge tmpfs Hugh Dickins
2015-01-16 12:18 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2015-01-16 13:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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