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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC 2/2] Implement sharing/unsharing of PMDs for FS/DAX
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 09:07:11AM -0700, Larry Bassel wrote:
> Again, I don't think this can happen in DAX. The only sharing allowed
> is for FS/DAX/2MiB pagesize.

Hm. I still don't follow. How do you guarantee that DAX actually allocated
continues space for the file on backing storage and you can map it with
PMD page? I believe you don't have such guarantee.


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Kirill A. Shutemov

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