Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:48:13 +1000 | From | Nicholas Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/vmalloc: Hugepage vmalloc mappings |
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Excerpts from Christoph Hellwig's message of April 14, 2020 11:02 pm: > 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?
Yes.
Thanks, Nick
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