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Re: UVM aobj: Large VM objects.



> > however, i don't think long is appropriate here.
> > please introduce a 64-bit "page offset" type.
> > "typedef voff_t pgoff_t" should be fine.
> 
>       Can't we use something similar to vm_offset_t, which is
>       appropriately sized for the machine?
> 
>       If we are ever going to need it to be 64bit on every arch with 32bit
>       physical and virtual addresses then I agree it should be 64bit,
>       but otherwise its yet another tiny performance loss/memory
>       growth, continuing the pecking to death by ducks...

IMO, the appropriate size is arch-independent
as far as aobj is used for tmpfs or such.

YAMAMOTO Takashi



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