linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 00/14] Add support for shared PTEs across processes

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Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:08:00 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/14] Add support for shared PTEs across processes

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:51:46AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 4/11/22 10:37, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Another argument that MM developers find compelling is that we can reduce
> > some of the complexity in hugetlbfs where it has the ability to share
> > page tables between processes.
> 
> When could this complexity reduction actually happen in practice?  Can
> this mshare thingy be somehow dropped in underneath the existing
> hugetlbfs implementation?  Or would userspace need to change?

Userspace needs to opt in to mshare, so there's going to be a transition
period where we still need hugetlbfs to still support it, but I have
the impression that the users that need page table sharing are pretty
specialised and we'll be able to find them all before disabling it.

I don't think we can make it transparent to userspace, but I'll noodle
on that a bit.