Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] Make MAX_ORDER adjustable as a kernel boot time parameter.
From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-06 16:32:56
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From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-06 16:32:56
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On 8/5/21 9:02 PM, Zi Yan wrote:
From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Hi all, This patchset add support for kernel boot time adjustable MAX_ORDER, so that user can change the largest size of pages obtained from buddy allocator. It also removes the restriction on MAX_ORDER based on SECTION_SIZE_BITS, so that buddy allocator can merge PFNs across memory sections when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is set. It is on top of v5.14-rc4-mmotm-2021-08-02-18-51. Motivation === This enables kernel to allocate 1GB pages and is necessary for my ongoing work on adding support for 1GB PUD THP[1]. This is also the conclusion I came up with after some discussion with David Hildenbrand on what methods should be used for allocating gigantic pages[2], since other approaches like using CMA allocator or alloc_contig_pages() are regarded as suboptimal.
I see references [1] [2] etc but no list of links at the end, did you forgot to include?