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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: introduce vm_ops->map_pages()
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:59:59 -0800
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On 02/27/2014 11:53 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> +#define FAULT_AROUND_ORDER 4
> +#define FAULT_AROUND_PAGES (1UL << FAULT_AROUND_ORDER)
> +#define FAULT_AROUND_MASK ~((1UL << (PAGE_SHIFT + FAULT_AROUND_ORDER)) - 1)

Looking at the performance data made me think of this: do we really want
this to be static?  It seems like the kind of thing that will cause a
regression _somewhere_.

Also, the folks with larger base bage sizes probably don't want a
FAULT_AROUND_ORDER=4.  That's 1MB of fault-around for ppc64, for example.