Re: [PATCH 0/8] Huge page-table entries for TTM

2020-02-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 14:22:31 +0100 Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote: > In order to save TLB space and CPU usage this patchset enables huge- and giant > page-table entries for TTM and TTM-enabled graphics drivers. Have these savings been measured? They shouild be, please. And documented in this

[PATCH 0/8] Huge page-table entries for TTM

2019-12-03 Thread VMware
In order to save TLB space and CPU usage this patchset enables huge- and giant page-table entries for TTM and TTM-enabled graphics drivers. Patch 1 introduces a vma_is_special_huge() function to make the mm code take the same path as DAX when splitting huge- and giant page table entries, (which cu