[RFC PATCH v2 00/20] Reimplement huge pages without hugepd on powerpc (8xx, e500, book3s/64)

Peter Xu peterx at redhat.com
Tue May 28 00:14:06 AEST 2024


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 02:46:58PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christophe is a powerpc developer :)

Yes, definitely. :)

> 
> I'll help where I can, but I don't know the hugepd code that well, I've
> never really worked on it before. Nick will hopefully also be able to
> help, he at least knows mm better than me, but he also has other work.
> 
> Hopefully we can make this series work, and replace hugepd. But if we
> can't make that work then there is the possibility of just dropping
> support for 16M/16G pages with HPT/4K pages.

Great, thank you!

-- 
Peter Xu



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