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From: Sagi Grimberg <sagig-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel fast memory registration API proposal [RFC]
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:27:52 +0300
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>> I'm thinking now that this should have an input argument
>> of block_size. Maybe in the future ULPs would want to register
>> huge pages, it will be a shame to map it into PAGE_SIZE chunks...
>
> Why wouldn't it just transparently support huge pages? sg seems to
> have enough information.

I'm not sure I know how to do that, can you explain how please?
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