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

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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 10:14:06 -0400
From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/20] Reimplement huge pages without hugepd on
 powerpc (8xx, e500, book3s/64)

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