From: Nadia Chambers <nadia.yvette.chambers@ik.me>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] 64k (or 16k) base page size on x86
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:49:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <al3YIwkfheZKUFYE@ik.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d4fbb2b-dfef-4228-9e9f-f967aec4dfd7@kernel.org>
On 7/19/26 23:24, Nadia Chambers wrote:
>> While it had to be written, it was a straightforward extension of
>> converting ->vm_pgoff to being in MMUPAGE_SIZE (Kiryl's PTE_SIZE) units,
>> recovering offsets into pages usw. Nothing seemed terribly hard to
>> understand about it. Really, the code as it stands rarely approaches
>> what it's doing in such a way that it broadly surveys the layout of vmas
>> and pages and be conscious of whether pages spanned vmas or multiple
>> vmas were representing maps of of fragments of pages, so I'm not
>> convinced there's anything particularly unique to be afraid of here.
Am Mo 20 Jul 2026 um 09:02:21 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) schrieb:
> Just to be clear: I don't want this.
Understood. Maybe it was a different and good experience for me and I
got my hopes up too far that it might go anywhere from the recent
efforts in similar directions. But I can work on whatever people
actually want me to instead.
-- nyc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-20 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 15:08 [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] 64k (or 16k) base page size on x86 Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-19 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-19 15:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-19 15:27 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-19 15:33 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-19 15:50 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-19 15:53 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-19 19:31 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-19 15:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-19 15:54 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-19 16:09 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-20 2:55 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-19 17:30 ` Nadia Chambers
2026-02-19 17:09 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-20 10:24 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-20 12:07 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-20 16:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-20 19:33 ` Kalesh Singh
2026-02-23 11:04 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-23 11:13 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-23 11:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-23 12:16 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-23 15:14 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-23 15:31 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-23 15:45 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-23 15:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-23 16:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-23 16:34 ` David Laight
2026-07-19 22:24 ` Nadia Chambers
2026-07-20 8:02 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-20 8:49 ` Nadia Chambers [this message]
2026-02-19 23:24 ` Kalesh Singh
2026-02-20 12:10 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-20 19:21 ` Kalesh Singh
2026-02-19 17:08 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-19 22:05 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-20 3:28 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-02-20 12:33 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-20 15:17 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-02-20 15:50 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-19 3:42 ` Nadia Chambers
2026-07-19 5:23 ` Hillf Danton
2026-07-19 6:09 ` Nadia Chambers
2026-02-19 17:30 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-19 22:14 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-19 22:21 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-19 17:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-02-19 22:26 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-19 23:00 ` Nadia Chambers
2026-02-20 9:04 ` David Laight
2026-02-20 12:12 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-19 22:31 ` Nadia Chambers
2026-04-29 14:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-04-29 15:26 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-05-01 18:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-01 18:00 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-05-01 18:02 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-01 18:12 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-05-01 18:31 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-19 0:51 ` Nadia Chambers
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