From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs, mm: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:34:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160321163404.GA141069@black.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1603211121210.26353@east.gentwo.org>
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:25:09AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> > PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago
> > with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with
> > bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
> >
> > This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.
>
> So we decided that we are never going to put THP pages on a LRU?
Err?.. What?
We do have anon-THP pages on LRU. My huge tmpfs patchset also put
file-THPs on LRU list.
The patchset has nothing to do with THP or them being on LRU.
> Will this actually work if we have really huge memory (100s of TB) where
> almost everything is a huge page? Guess we have to use hugetlbfs and we
> need to think about this as being exempt from paging.
Sorry, I failed to understand your message.
Look on huge tmpfs patchset. It allows both small and huge pages in page
cache.
Anyway, it's out of scope of the patchset.
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Kirill A. Shutemov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-21 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 12:06 [PATCH 0/3] fs, mm: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-21 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, fs: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-21 12:45 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-21 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-21 17:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-21 12:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-21 12:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-21 12:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: drop PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} definition Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-21 12:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-21 16:25 ` [PATCH 0/3] fs, mm: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros Christoph Lameter
2016-03-21 16:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2016-03-21 16:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-03-21 17:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-21 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-03-22 10:41 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-22 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
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