[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] State Of The Page

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Wed Jan 24 09:55:46 PST 2024


On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 09:51:02AM -0800, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> Can we come up with a design that uses a huge page (or some arbitrary page
> size) and the breaks out portions of the large page? That way potentially
> TLB use can be reduced (multiple sections of a large page use the same TLB)
> and defragmentation occurs because allocs and frees focus on a selection of
> large memory sections.

Could I trouble you to reply in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Za6RXtSE_TSdrRm_@casper.infradead.org/
where I actually outline what I think we should do next.



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