On 10/15/19 4:37 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On 10/15/19 3:50 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: >> On Tue 15-10-19 11:01:12, Piotr Sarna wrote: >>> With hugetlbfs, a common pattern for mapping anonymous huge pages >>> is to create a temporary file first. >> >> Really? I though that this is normally done by shmget(SHM_HUGETLB) or >> mmap(MAP_HUGETLB). Or maybe I misunderstood your definition on anonymous >> huge pages. >> >>> Currently libraries like >>> libhugetlbfs and seastar create these with a standard mkstemp+unlink >>> trick, > > I would guess that much of libhugetlbfs was writen before MAP_HUGETLB > was implemented. So, that is why it does not make (more) use of that > option. > > The implementation looks to be straight forward. However, I really do > not want to add more functionality to hugetlbfs unless there is specific > use case that needs it.
It was not my intention to shut down discussion on this patch. I was just asking if there was a (new) use case for such a change. I am checking with our DB team as I seem to remember them using the create/unlink approach for hugetlbfs in one of their upcoming models. Is there a new use case you were thinking about? -- Mike Kravetz
