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SubjectRe: hugepage: Strict page reservation for hugepage inodes
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:38:58AM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> David Gibson wrote on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:23 AM
> > Yes. This is a simplifying assumption. I know of no real application
> > that will waste pages because of this behaviour. If you know one,
> > maybe we will need to reconsider.
> >
> > > I have an idea. How about to record all the start/end address of
> > > huge page mmaping of the inode? Long long ago, there was a patch at
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lse-tech&m=108187931924134&w=2.
> > > Of course, we need port it to the latest kernel if this idea is better.
> >
> > I know the patch - I was going to port it to the current kernel, but
> > came up with my patch instead, because it seemed like a simpler
> > approach.
>
> I really think the Variable length reservation system is the way to go
> for tracking hugetlb commit. It is more robust and in my opinion, it
> is better than traverse the page cache radix tree. At least, you don't
> have to worry about all the race condition there. Oh, it also can get
> rid of the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex that was introduced. Someday,
> people is going to scream at you for serializing hugetlb fault path.

Well, not my decision, or yours I think. wli? akpm?

But I don't see that recording all the mapped ranges will avoid the
need for the fault serialization. At least the version of apw's
reservation patch I looked at most recently would certainly still
suffer from the alloc/instantiate race on the last hugepage in the
system. This is a different bug from that addressed by reservation
(of whichever form).

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