On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:03:11PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > I was hoping Mathew's folio conversion would help clarify this..
>
> I doubt that: what we have for use today is pages, however they are
> dressed up.
I mean the part where Matthew is going and splitting the types and
making it
On Wed, 31 May 2023, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 11:23:47PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Add the generic pte_free_defer(), to call pte_free() via call_rcu().
> > pte_free_defer() will be called inside khugepaged's retract_page_tables()
> > loop, where allocating extra memory
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 8:23 AM Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Add the generic pte_free_defer(), to call pte_free() via call_rcu().
> pte_free_defer() will be called inside khugepaged's retract_page_tables()
> loop, where allocating extra memory cannot be relied upon. This version
> suits all those
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 11:23:47PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Add the generic pte_free_defer(), to call pte_free() via call_rcu().
> pte_free_defer() will be called inside khugepaged's retract_page_tables()
> loop, where allocating extra memory cannot be relied upon. This version
> suits all
Add the generic pte_free_defer(), to call pte_free() via call_rcu().
pte_free_defer() will be called inside khugepaged's retract_page_tables()
loop, where allocating extra memory cannot be relied upon. This version
suits all those architectures which use an unfragmented page for one page
table
