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In future ASICs the MMU will be able to work with multiple page sizes, thus a new flag is added to allow the user to set the requested page size. This flag is added since the whole DRAM is allocated for the user and the user also should be familiar with the memory usage use case. As such, the user may choose to "over allocate" memory in favor of performance (for instance- large page allocations covers more memory in less TLB entries). For example: say available page sizes are of 1MB and 32MB. If user wants to allocate 40MB the user can either set page size to 1MB and allocate the exact amount of memory (but will result in 40 TLB entries) or the user can use 32MB pages, "waste" 8MB of physical memory but occupy only 2 TLB entries. Note that this feature will be available only to ASIC that supports multiple DRAM page sizes. Signed-off-by: Ohad Sharabi <osharabi@habana.ai> Reviewed-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org> |
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