On Wed, 21 May 2014 22:04:22 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently we split all THP pages on any clear_refs request. It's not > necessary. We can handle this on PMD level. > > One side effect is that soft dirty will potentially see more dirty > memory, since we will mark whole THP page dirty at once. This clashes pretty badly with http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/clear_refs-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch > Sanity checked with CRIU test suite. More testing is required. Will you be doing that testing or was this a request for Cyrill & co to help? Perhaps this is post-3.15 material. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
