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From:   Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To:     James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/47] hugetlb: only adjust address ranges when
 VMAs want PMD sharing
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 04:36:20PM +0000, James Houghton wrote:
> Currently this check is overly aggressive. For some userfaultfd VMAs,
> VMA sharing is disabled, yet we still widen the address range, which is
> used for flushing TLBs and sending MMU notifiers.
> 
> This is done now, as HGM VMAs also have sharing disabled, yet would
> still have flush ranges adjusted. Overaggressively flushing TLBs and
> triggering MMU notifiers is particularly harmful with lots of
> high-granularity operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>

Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu