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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/25] Page folios
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:09:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210315190904.GB150808@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YE9VLGl50hLIJHci@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 01:38:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I tend to agree here as well. The level compoud_head has spread out
> silently is just too large. There are people coming up with all sorts of
> optimizations to workaround that, and they are quite right that this is
> somehing worth doing, but last attempts I have seen were very focused on
> specific page flags handling which is imho worse wrt maintainability
> than a higher level and type safe abstraction. I find it quite nice that
> this doesn't really have to be a flag day conversion but it can be done
> incrementally.
> 
> I didn't get review the series yet and I cannot really promise anything
> but from what I understand the conversion should be pretty
> straightforward, albeit noisy.
> 
> One thing that was really strange to me when seeing the concept for the
> first time was the choice of naming (no I do not want to start any
> bikeshedding) because it hasn't really resonated with the udnerlying
> concept. Maybe just me as a non native speaker... page_head would have
> been so much more straightforward but not something I really care about.

That pretty much summarizes my opinion as well.  I'll need to find some
time to review the series as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-05  4:18 [PATCH v4 00/25] Page folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 01/25] mm: Introduce struct folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-13 20:37   ` Andrew Morton
2021-03-14  4:07     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-17 17:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 23:56   ` Balbir Singh
2021-03-19  1:25     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-20  2:09       ` Balbir Singh
2021-03-22  2:52       ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-03-22  3:54         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 02/25] mm: Add folio_pgdat and folio_zone Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 03/25] mm/vmstat: Add functions to account folio statistics Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-13 20:37   ` Andrew Morton
2021-03-14  4:11     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-14  4:51       ` Andrew Morton
2021-03-17 17:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 04/25] mm/debug: Add VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO and VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 05/25] mm: Add put_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 06/25] mm: Add get_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 07/25] mm: Create FolioFlags Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-15  2:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 08/25] mm: Handle per-folio private data Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-17 17:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 17:57     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 09/25] mm: Add folio_index, folio_page and folio_contains Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-13 20:37   ` Andrew Morton
2021-03-14  3:45     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-17 17:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 10/25] mm/util: Add folio_mapping and folio_file_mapping Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-17 17:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 11/25] mm/memcg: Add folio wrappers for various memcontrol functions Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 12/25] mm/filemap: Add unlock_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 13/25] mm/filemap: Add lock_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 14/25] mm/filemap: Add lock_folio_killable Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 15/25] mm/filemap: Convert lock_page_async to lock_folio_async Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-17 17:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 16/25] mm/filemap: Convert end_page_writeback to end_folio_writeback Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 17/25] mm/filemap: Add wait_on_folio_locked & wait_on_folio_locked_killable Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 18/25] mm/page-writeback: Add wait_on_folio_writeback Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 19/25] mm/page-writeback: Add wait_for_stable_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 20/25] mm/filemap: Convert wait_on_page_bit to wait_on_folio_bit Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-17 17:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 21/25] mm/filemap: Add __lock_folio_or_retry Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 22/25] mm/filemap: Convert wake_up_page_bit to wake_up_folio_bit Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:18 ` [PATCH v4 23/25] mm/page-writeback: Convert test_clear_page_writeback to take a folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:19 ` [PATCH v4 24/25] mm/filemap: Convert page wait queues to be folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-05  4:19 ` [PATCH v4 25/25] cachefiles: Switch to wait_page_key Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-17 17:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-13 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 00/25] Page folios Andrew Morton
2021-03-14  2:30   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-14  3:09   ` Hugh Dickins
2021-03-14  3:09     ` Hugh Dickins
2021-03-15 11:55     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-03-15 12:38       ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-15 19:09         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-03-15 19:40           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-15 22:27             ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-17 17:48             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 21:33         ` Andi Kleen
2021-03-15 21:33           ` Andi Kleen
2021-03-15 13:45       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-19  4:01 ` Matthew Wilcox

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