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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	 Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
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	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
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	 Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,  Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: restore full accuracy in COW page reuse
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:54:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh=-_F1_ozuF6Wzg1-u07iLuUG_77SQeuX7gwgC5DQKzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210113125532.GN35215@casper.infradead.org>

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:56 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, Linus mis-stated it:

Yeah, I got the order wrong.

> ... but as David pointed out, I fixed this in e320d3012d25

.. and I must have seen it, but not really internalized it.

And now that I look at it more closely, I'm actually surprised that
other than the magic "speculative first page" case we don't seem to
use page reference counting for non-order-0 pages (which would break
that hack horribly).

             Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-13 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-10  0:44 [PATCH 0/1] mm: restore full accuracy in COW page reuse Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10  0:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10  2:54   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-11 14:11     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-01-10  0:55 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10  1:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10  1:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10  3:24       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10  2:51     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10  3:51       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10 19:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-11  1:18           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-11  7:26           ` John Hubbard
2021-01-11 12:42             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-11 16:05             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-11 16:15               ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-11 19:19             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-11 22:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-12 17:07                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 23:51                 ` Jerome Glisse
2021-01-13  2:16                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-13  2:43                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13  3:31                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13  8:52                     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-13  8:57                       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-13 12:32                     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-01-13 12:55                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-13 19:54                         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-01-13 23:54           ` Peter Xu
2021-01-11 15:52       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-15  8:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-15 18:37   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-15 19:46     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-15 19:53       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-16  3:40       ` John Hubbard
2021-01-16 11:42         ` David Hildenbrand

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