On Tue Apr 21, 2026 at 2:43 PM UTC, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 03:17:58PM +0000, Kalyazin, Nikita wrote: >> From: Nikita Kalyazin <[email protected]> >> >> Let's convert set_direct_map_*() to take an address instead of a page to >> prepare for adding helpers that operate on folios; it will be more >> efficient to convert from a folio directly to an address without going >> through a page first.
Why is this more efficient? Isn't it a purely compile-time conversion? Indeed in the current implementation folio_address() is page_address(&folio->page) so it still goes through a page anyway, no? I might be missing context here about how this will look in the memdesc future.
