Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Schoebel-Theuer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes | Date | Sat, 22 Jan 2022 11:18:14 +0100 |
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On 1/22/22 2:41 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 01:39:46AM +0000, Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) wrote: >>>> Our use case is that we have some very large files stored on persistent >>>> memory which we want to mmap in thousands of processes. So the first >> The memory overhead of PTEs would be significantly saved if we use >> hugetlbfs in this case, but why not? > Because we want the files to be persistent across reboots.
100% agree. There is another use case: geo-redundancy.
My view is publicly documented at https://github.com/schoebel/mars/tree/master/docu and click at architecture-guide-geo-redundancy.pdf
In some scenarios, migration or (temporary) co-existence of block devices from/between hardware architecture A to/between hardware architecture B might become a future requirement for me.
The currrent implementation does not yet use hugetlbfs and/or its proposed / low-overhead / more fine-grained and/or less hardware-architecture specific (future) alternatives.
For me, all of these are future options. In particular, when (1) abstractable for reduction of architectural dependencies, and hopefully (2) usable from both kernelspace and userspace.
It would be great if msharefs is not only low-footprint, but also would be usable from kernelspace.
Reduction (or getting rid) of preallocation strategies would be also a valuable feature for me.
Of course, I cannot decide what I will prefer in future for any future requirements. But some kind of mutual awareness and future collaboration would be great.
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