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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Longpeng (Mike,
	Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)"
	<longpeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:41:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yetgy/eT+rZBgSq7@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b34ded1e11154eabbce07618bf0a6676@huawei.com>

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 01:39:46AM +0000, Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) wrote:
> > > Our use case is that we have some very large files stored on persistent
> > > memory which we want to mmap in thousands of processes.  So the first
> 
> The memory overhead of PTEs would be significantly saved if we use
> hugetlbfs in this case, but why not?

Because we want the files to be persistent across reboots.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-22  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-18 21:19 [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] mm: Add new system calls mshare, mshare_unlink Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] mm: Add msharefs filesystem Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] mm: Add read for msharefs Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] mm: implement mshare_unlink syscall Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] mm: Add locking to msharefs syscalls Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] mm: Add basic page table sharing using mshare Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes Dave Hansen
2022-01-18 21:46   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-18 22:47     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 22:06 ` Dave Hansen
2022-01-18 22:52   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-19 11:38 ` Mark Hemment
2022-01-19 17:02   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-20 12:49     ` Mark Hemment
2022-01-20 19:15       ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-24 15:15         ` Mark Hemment
2022-01-24 15:27           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-24 22:20           ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-21  1:08 ` Barry Song
2022-01-21  2:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21  7:35     ` Barry Song
2022-01-21 14:47       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21 16:41         ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-22  1:39           ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2022-01-22  1:41             ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-01-22 10:18               ` Thomas Schoebel-Theuer
2022-01-22 16:09                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-22 11:31 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-22 18:29   ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-24 18:48   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-24 19:45     ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-24 22:30       ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-24 23:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-24 23:44           ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-25 11:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 12:09   ` William Kucharski
2022-01-25 13:18     ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-25 14:01       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 13:23   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-25 13:59     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 14:09       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-25 18:57         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 18:59           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26  4:04             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26 10:16               ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-26 13:38                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26 13:55                   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-26 14:12                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26 14:30                       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-26 14:12                   ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-26 13:42               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-26 14:18                 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-26 17:33                   ` Khalid Aziz

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