linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte not present

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:51:13 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
        James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte
 not present

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> In many cases, the hugetlb specific page table routines are the same as
> the generic routines.  But, there are a few exceptions.  IMO, it would
> be better to first try to cleanup and unify those routines.  That would
> make changes to the walker routines less invasive and easier to
> maintain.  I believe is other code that would benefit from such a
> cleanup.  Unless there are strong objections, I suggest we move forward
> with the optimization here and move the cleanup and possible walker
> changes to a later series.

No objection on my side, thanks Mike for trying to look into it.

-- 
Peter Xu