From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF2EC11F66 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DFF61361 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S237448AbhGNCNz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:13:55 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54154 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237428AbhGNCNx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:13:53 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04B6161260; Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:11:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1626228662; bh=vSDndrHeLw7XaPTTxvIHN02H9QKd84y0MXkTgllu+BE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=AtTz0juCBR1u3QZ2mh/HHMslRjQ2ETaNGLVS3z9cXItuWz3YlsWzuMG8yzbdJapB1 uXqv3SU8E4P2TRtyJtADOqoQHu51/OgXl/lX4W3rr/BGg7uP1Mop1qIVWy0yPe60uj MwpHtMDpUYeIY4pxJT6YCs3ryijI+e3uA3sKZ/Bo= Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:11:01 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Jeff Layton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Request for folios Message-Id: <20210713191101.b38013786e36286e78c9648c@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <3398985.1626104609@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <3398985.1626104609@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:43:29 +0100 David Howells wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Is it possible to get Willy's folios patchset - or at least the core of it - > staged for the next merge window? I'm working on improvements to the local > filesystem caching code and the network filesystem support library and that > involves a lot of dealing with pages - all of which will need to be converted > to the folios stuff. This has the potential to conflict with the changes > Willy's patches make to filesystems. Further, the folios patchset offers some > facilities that make my changes a bit easier - and some changes that make > things a bit more challenging (e.g. page size becoming variable). It's about that time. However there's a discussion at present which might result in significant renamings, so I'll wait until that has panned out. > Also, is it possible to get the folios patchset in a stable public git branch > that I can base my patches upon? I guess Willy's tree, but I doubt if the folio patches will be reliably stable for some time (a few weeks?)