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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC v2: post-init-read-only protection for data allocated dynamically
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 07:30:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <210752b7-1cbf-2ac3-9f9a-62536dfd24d8@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7bb1884-3125-5c98-f1fe-53b974454ce2@huawei.com>

On 05/04/2017 01:17 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> Or, let me put it differently: my goal is to not fracture more pages
> than needed.
> It will probably require some profiling to figure out what is the
> ballpark of the memory footprint.

This is easy to say, but hard to do.  What if someone loads a different
set of LSMs, or uses a very different configuration?  How could this
possibly work generally without vastly over-reserving in most cases?

> I might have overlooked some aspect of this, but the overall goal
> is to have a memory range (I won't call it zone, to avoid referring to a
> specific implementation) which is as tightly packed as possible, stuffed
> with all the data that is expected to become read-only.

I'm starting with the assumption that a new zone isn't feasible. :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-04 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-03 12:06 RFC v2: post-init-read-only protection for data allocated dynamically Igor Stoppa
     [not found] ` <70a9d4db-f374-de45-413b-65b74c59edcb@intel.com>
2017-05-04  8:17   ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-04 14:30     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-05-05  8:53       ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-04 11:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-04 12:14   ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-04 13:11     ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-04 13:37       ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-04 14:01         ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-04 17:24           ` Dave Hansen
2017-05-05 12:08             ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-05 12:19           ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-10  7:45             ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-04 16:49 ` Laura Abbott
2017-05-05 10:42   ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-08 15:25     ` Laura Abbott
2017-05-09  9:38       ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-10  8:05     ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10  8:57       ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-10 11:43         ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10 15:19           ` Igor Stoppa
2017-05-10 15:45             ` Dave Hansen
2017-05-19 10:51               ` Igor Stoppa

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