Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:02:03 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/vmalloc: Hugepage vmalloc mappings |
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:13:44PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > Which case? Usually the answer would be because you don't want to use > contiguous physical memory and/or you don't want to use the linear > mapping.
But with huge pages you do by definition already use large contiguous areas. So you want allocations larger than "small" huge pages but not using gigantic pages using vmalloc?
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