Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte not present

From: Peter Xu
Date: Wed Jun 15 2022 - 13:51:23 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> In many cases, the hugetlb specific page table routines are the same as
> the generic routines. But, there are a few exceptions. IMO, it would
> be better to first try to cleanup and unify those routines. That would
> make changes to the walker routines less invasive and easier to
> maintain. I believe is other code that would benefit from such a
> cleanup. Unless there are strong objections, I suggest we move forward
> with the optimization here and move the cleanup and possible walker
> changes to a later series.

No objection on my side, thanks Mike for trying to look into it.

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Peter Xu