Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:19:30 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Folios for 5.15 request - Was: re: Folio discussion recap - |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:16:18AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > My only effort from the start has been working out unanswered > questions in this proposal: Are compound pages the reliable, scalable, > and memory-efficient way to do bigger page sizes? What's the scope of > remaining tailpages where typesafety will continue to lack? How do we > implement code and properties shared by folios and non-folio types > (like mmap/fault code for folio and network and driver pages)?
I don't think those questions need to be answered before proceeding with this patchset. They're interesting questions, to be sure, but to a large extent they're orthogonal to the changes here. I look forward to continuing to work on those problems while filesystems and the VFS continue to be converted to use folios.
> I'm not really sure how to exit this. The reasons for my NAK are still > there. But I will no longer argue or stand in the way of the patches.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
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