Subj : [$] Toward the unification of hugetlbfs
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed May 22 2024 18:00:07

[$] Toward the unification of hugetlbfs

Date:
Wed, 22 May 2024 16:53:09 +0000

Description:
The kernel's hugetlbfs
subsystem was the first mechanism by which the kernel made huge pages
available to user space; it was added to the 2.5.46 development kernel in
2002.  While hugetlbfs remains useful, it is also viewed as a sort of
second memory-management subsystem that would be best unified with the rest
of the kernel.  At the 2024 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit , Peter Xu raised the
question of what that unification would involve and what the first steps
might be.

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