On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 08:53:17AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 04:07:17AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > Also, why can't this just permanently GUP the pages? In fact, where > > > > > does it put_page them anyhow? Worrying that 7f466 adds a get_user page > > > > > but does not add a put_page?? > > > > > > You didn't answer this.. Why not just use GUP? > > > > > > Jason > > > > Sorry I misunderstood the question. Permanent GUP breaks lots of > > functionality we need such as THP and numa balancing. > > Really? It doesn't look like that many pages are involved.. > > Jason
Yea. But they just might happen to be heavily accessed ones.... -- MST
