From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Folio Prequel patches
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 17:29:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJlfXAMN7Es3/Sgu@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210510181245.15b4701e@linux.microsoft.com>
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 06:12:45PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:55:41 +0100
> "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > These patches have all been posted before and not picked up yet. I've
> > built the folio patches on top of them; while they are not necessarily
> > prerequisites in the conceptual sense, I'm not convinced that the
> > folio patches will build without them. The nth_page patch is purely
> > an efficiency question, while patch 5 ("Make compound_head
> > const-preserving") is required for the current implementation of
> > page_folio(). Patch 8 ("Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems")
> > is required for the struct folio layout to match struct page layout
> > on said 32-bit systems (arm, mips, ppc).
> >
> > They are on top of next-20210430
> >
>
> I'm running them since a couple days on an arm64 machine which uses the
> page_pool API. No issues so far.
Thanks! Andrew picked up the first seven of these patches last night,
and I resent the eighth one today:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210510153211.1504886-1-willy@infradead.org/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-10 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 14:55 [PATCH 0/8] Folio Prequel patches Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: Optimise nth_page for contiguous memmap Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: Make __dump_page static Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm/debug: Factor PagePoisoned out of __dump_page Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-05-12 3:29 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-05-12 3:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-12 3:53 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/page_owner: Constify dump_page_owner Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: Make compound_head const-preserving Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: Constify get_pfnblock_flags_mask and get_pfnblock_migratetype Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: Constify page_count and page_ref_count Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-05-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 0/8] Folio Prequel patches Matteo Croce
2021-05-10 16:29 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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