Re: [PATCH] Physical Memory Management [0/1]

[Andi Kleen]

Michaâ Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> The idea here is that there are n hardware accelerators, each
> can operate on 1MiB blocks (to simplify assume that's the case).

You could just define a hugepage size for that and use hugetlbfs
with a few changes to map in pages with multiple PTEs.
It supports boot time reservation and is a well established
interface.

On x86 that would give 2MB units, on other architectures whatever
you prefer.

-Andi

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