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Message-ID: <Y5J/3+cDZ8Md956A@monkey>
Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2022 16:22:55 -0800
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>
Cc:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@...gle.com>,
        Manish Mishra <manish.mishra@...anix.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/47] hugetlb: only adjust address ranges when
 VMAs want PMD sharing

On 10/21/22 16:36, James Houghton wrote:
> Currently this check is overly aggressive. For some userfaultfd VMAs,
> VMA sharing is disabled, yet we still widen the address range, which is
> used for flushing TLBs and sending MMU notifiers.

Yes, the userfaultfd check is missing in the code today.

> This is done now, as HGM VMAs also have sharing disabled, yet would
> still have flush ranges adjusted. Overaggressively flushing TLBs and
> triggering MMU notifiers is particularly harmful with lots of
> high-granularity operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Thanks,

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
-- 
Mike Kravetz

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