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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: willy@infradead.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com, arnd@arndb.de,
	21cnbao@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	david@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, hagen@jauu.net,
	jack@suse.cz, keescook@chromium.org, kirill@shutemov.name,
	kucharsk@gmail.com, linkinjeon@kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, longpeng2@huawei.com, luto@kernel.org,
	markhemm@googlemail.com, pcc@google.com, rppt@kernel.org,
	sieberf@amazon.com, sjpark@amazon.de, surenb@google.com,
	tst@schoebel-theuer.de, yzaikin@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for shared PTEs across processes
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 21:24:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220701212403.77ab8139b6e1aca87fae119e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1656531090.git.khalid.aziz@oracle.com>

On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:53:51 -0600 Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> wrote:

> This patch series implements a mechanism in kernel to allow
> userspace processes to opt into sharing PTEs. It adds a new
> in-memory filesystem - msharefs. 

Dumb question: why do we need a new filesystem for this?  Is it not
feasible to permit PTE sharing for mmaps of tmpfs/xfs/ext4/etc files?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-02  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-29 22:53 Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] mm: Add msharefs filesystem Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 21:53   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-01 16:05     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 22:57   ` Al Viro
2022-07-01 16:08     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] mm/mshare: pre-populate msharefs with information file Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 21:37   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-06-30 22:54     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 23:01   ` Al Viro
2022-07-01 16:11     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] mm/mshare: make msharefs writable and support directories Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 21:34   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-06-30 22:49     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 23:09   ` Al Viro
2022-07-02  0:22     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] mm/mshare: Add a read operation for msharefs files Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 21:27   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-06-30 22:27     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] mm/mshare: Add vm flag for shared PTE Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 14:59   ` Mark Hemment
2022-06-30 15:46     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] mm/mshare: Add mmap operation Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 21:44   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-06-30 23:30     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] mm/mshare: Add unlink and munmap support Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 21:50   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-01 15:58     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] mm/mshare: Add basic page table sharing support Khalid Aziz
2022-07-07  9:13   ` Xin Hao
2022-07-07 15:33     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-29 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] mm/mshare: Enable mshare region mapping across processes Khalid Aziz
2022-06-30 11:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for shared PTEs " Mark Hemment
2022-06-30 15:39   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-07-02  4:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-07-06 19:26   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-07-08 11:47   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-08 19:36     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-07-13 14:00       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-13 17:58         ` Mike Kravetz
2022-07-13 18:03           ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-14 22:02         ` Khalid Aziz
2022-07-18 12:59           ` David Hildenbrand

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