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Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 05:07:49 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To:     Larry Bassel <larry.bassel@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 2/2] Implement sharing/unsharing of PMDs for FS/DAX
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On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 09:07:11AM -0700, Larry Bassel wrote:
> Again, I don't think this can happen in DAX. The only sharing allowed
> is for FS/DAX/2MiB pagesize.

Hm. I still don't follow. How do you guarantee that DAX actually allocated
continues space for the file on backing storage and you can map it with
PMD page? I believe you don't have such guarantee.


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 Kirill A. Shutemov