On 7/22/21 3:24 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 02:48:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:35:28 +0100 Joao Martins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> This series, attempts at minimizing 'struct page' overhead by >>> pursuing a similar approach as Muchun Song series "Free some vmemmap >>> pages of hugetlb page"[0] but applied to devmap/ZONE_DEVICE which is now >>> in mmotm. >>> >>> [0] >>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/ >> >> [0] is now in mainline. >> >> This patch series looks like it'll clash significantly with the folio >> work and it is pretty thinly reviewed, so I think I'll take a pass for >> now. Matthew, thoughts? > > I had a look through it, and I don't see anything that looks like it'll > clash with the folio patches.
FWIW, I had tried this last week, and this series applies cleanly on top of your 130+ patch series for Folios. > The folio work really touches the page > cache for now, and this seems mostly to touch the devmap paths. > /me nods -- it really is about devmap infra for usage in device-dax for persistent memory. Perhaps I should do s/pagemaps/devmap/ throughout the series to avoid confusion. > It would be nice to convert the devmap code to folios too, but that > can wait. The mess with page refcounts needs to be sorted out first. > I suppose you refer to fixing the current zone-device elevated page ref count? https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
