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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] nvme-cli: Support for hugetlbfs
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:20:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27eb0ed1-a31a-c466-7158-73d8fb5349d3@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191105183412.333-1-kbusch@kernel.org>

On 11/5/19 11:34 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> Some commands require exceptionally large data transfers, and the
> kernel driver supports only a limited number of phyiscal segments per
> command. To help support large transfers, try to allocate physically
> contiguous space via hugetlbfs.
> 
> Rather than deal with the nuances of allocating huge pages, this patch
> requires libhugetlbfs be installed on the host system.

LGTM, and solves a real issue with user issued admin commands that we
can't break up.

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-06  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-05 18:34 [RFC] nvme-cli: Support for hugetlbfs Keith Busch
2019-11-05 20:35 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-11-06  0:49   ` Keith Busch
2019-11-06  0:20 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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