Re: [RFC PATCH v2 9/9] mm: Introduce Copy-On-Write PTE table

From: John Hubbard
Date: Tue Sep 27 2022 - 17:26:35 EST


On 9/27/22 12:53, Chih-En Lin wrote:
> I'm not familiar with THP right now. But we have a plan for looking
> at it to see what will happen with COW PTE.
> Currently, I can only say that I prefer to avoid involving the behavior
> of huge-page/THP. If there are any ideas here please tell us.
>
In order to be considered at all, this would have to at least behave
correctly in the presence of THP and hugetlbfs, IMHO. Those are no
longer niche features.


thanks,

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John Hubbard
NVIDIA