Re: [PATCH, RFC 00/10] THP refcounting redesign

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> Could you elaborate here?

The page migration scheme works by locking and also putting in a fake pte
to ensure that any accesses cause a page fault which will then block.
In the THP case we would need a fake pmd.

That allows effectively to force all accesses to the page to stop. Then
you do the page migration (and you could do the splitting etc) and then
replace the fake pmd/pte with real ones.

See the page migration code.

> Agreed. The patchset drops tail page refcounting.

Great. Step in the right diretion.
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