Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 3 authors, 2021-11-19

Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] mm, dax: Introduce compound pages in devmap

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Date: 2021-11-12 15:40:16
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 04:08:16PM +0100, Joao Martins wrote:
This series converts device-dax to use compound pages, and moves away from the
'struct page per basepage on PMD/PUD' that is done today. Doing so, unlocks a
few noticeable improvements on unpin_user_pages() and makes device-dax+altmap case
4x times faster in pinning (numbers below and in last patch).
I like it - aside from performance this series is important to clean
up the ZONE_DEVICE refcounting mess as it means that only fsdax will
be installing tail pages as PMD entries.

Thanks,
Jason
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