From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Oren Twaig <oren@scalemp.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Shai Fultheim (Shai@ScaleMP.com)" <Shai@scalemp.com>
Subject: Re: x86: vmalloc and THP
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:07:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140812060745.GA7987@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E99F86.5020100@scalemp.com>
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:00:54AM +0300, Oren Twaig wrote:
> <html style="direction: ltr;">
plain/text, please.
>Hello,
>
>Does memory allocated using vmalloc() will be mapped using huge
>pages either directly or later by THP ?
No. It's neither aligned properly, nor physically contiguous.
>If not, is there any fast way to change this behavior ? Maybe by
>changing the granularity/alignment of such allocations to allow such
>mapping ?
What's the point to use vmalloc() in this case?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 5:00 x86: vmalloc and THP Oren Twaig
2014-08-12 6:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2014-08-12 12:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-08-12 15:01 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-08-12 16:20 ` Oren Twaig
2014-08-12 21:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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2014-08-12 5:01 Oren Twaig
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