Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] 64k (or 16k) base page size on x86

[Nadia Chambers]

On 7/19/26 23:24, Nadia Chambers wrote:
>> While it had to be written, it was a straightforward extension of
>> converting ->vm_pgoff to being in MMUPAGE_SIZE (Kiryl's PTE_SIZE) units,
>> recovering offsets into pages usw. Nothing seemed terribly hard to
>> understand about it. Really, the code as it stands rarely approaches
>> what it's doing in such a way that it broadly surveys the layout of vmas
>> and pages and be conscious of whether pages spanned vmas or multiple
>> vmas were representing maps of of fragments of pages, so I'm not
>> convinced there's anything particularly unique to be afraid of here.

Am Mo 20 Jul 2026 um 09:02:21 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) schrieb:
> Just to be clear: I don't want this.

Understood. Maybe it was a different and good experience for me and I
got my hopes up too far that it might go anywhere from the recent
efforts in similar directions. But I can work on whatever people
actually want me to instead.


-- nyc