From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: hughd@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, brauner@kernel.org,
djwong@kernel.org, p.raghav@samsung.com, da.gomez@samsung.com,
rohan.puri@samsung.com, rpuri.linux@gmail.com,
a.manzanares@samsung.com, dave@stgolabs.net,
yosryahmed@google.com, keescook@chromium.org, hare@suse.de,
kbusch@kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/8] add support for blocksize > PAGE_SIZE
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 10:33:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZHDtgdhauy0RZPeU@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZHC6BM+ehSC5Atv8@casper.infradead.org>
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 02:54:12PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > This is an initial attempt to add support for block size > PAGE_SIZE for tmpfs.
> > Why would you want this? It helps us experiment with higher order folio uses
> > with fs APIS and helps us test out corner cases which would likely need
> > to be accounted for sooner or later if and when filesystems enable support
> > for this. Better review early and burn early than continue on in the wrong
> > direction so looking for early feedback.
>
> I think this is entirely the wrong direction to go in.
Any recommendations for alternative directions?
> You're coming at this from a block layer perspective, and we have two
> ways of doing large block devices -- qemu nvme and brd. tmpfs should
> be like other filesystems and opportunistically use folios of whatever
> size makes sense.
I figured the backing block size would be a good reason to use high
order folios for filesystems, and this mimicks that through the super
block block size. Although usage of the block size would be moved to
the block device and tmpfs use an page order, what other alternatives
were you thinking?
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-26 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-26 7:55 [RFC v2 0/8] add support for blocksize > PAGE_SIZE Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 1/8] page_flags: add is_folio_hwpoison() Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 13:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-26 15:40 ` Keith Busch
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 2/8] shmem: convert to use is_folio_hwpoison() Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 14:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-26 17:41 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 18:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 3/8] shmem: account for high order folios Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 4/8] shmem: add helpers to get block size Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 5/8] shmem: account for larger blocks sizes for shmem_default_max_blocks() Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 6/8] shmem: consider block size in shmem_default_max_inodes() Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 7/8] shmem: add high order page support Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 7:55 ` [RFC v2 8/8] shmem: add support to customize block size order Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 8:07 ` [RFC v2 0/8] add support for blocksize > PAGE_SIZE Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 8:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-26 8:18 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 8:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-26 8:35 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-05-26 13:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-26 17:33 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2023-05-26 18:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
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