From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/27] Memory Folios
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 20:31:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGe3dy5OmT12NVYK@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210331184728.1188084-1-willy@infradead.org>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:47:01PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> The medium-term goal is to convert all filesystems and some device
> drivers to work in terms of folios. This series contains a lot of
> explicit conversions, but it's important to realise it's removing a lot
> of implicit conversions in some relatively hot paths. There will be very
> few conversions from folios when this work is completed; filesystems,
> the page cache, the LRU and so on will generally only deal with folios.
I'm pretty excited for this to land - 4k page overhead has been a pain point for
me for quite some time. I know this is going to be a lot of churn but I think
leveraging the type system is exactly the right way to go about this, and I
can't wait to start converting bcachefs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-03 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-31 18:47 [PATCH v6 00/27] Memory Folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 01/27] mm: Introduce struct folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 12:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-04-06 12:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-06 14:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-04-06 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 14:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-06 14:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 14:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-06 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 16:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 6:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-08 9:01 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 02/27] mm: Add folio_pgdat and folio_zone Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 03/27] mm/vmstat: Add functions to account folio statistics Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 04/27] mm/debug: Add VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO and VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 05/27] mm: Add folio reference count functions Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 06/27] mm: Add put_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 07/27] mm: Add get_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 08/27] mm: Create FolioFlags Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 09/27] mm: Handle per-folio private data Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 10/27] mm/filemap: Add folio_index, folio_file_page and folio_contains Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 11/27] mm/filemap: Add folio_next_index Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 12/27] mm/filemap: Add folio_offset and folio_file_offset Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 13/27] mm/util: Add folio_mapping and folio_file_mapping Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 14/27] mm: Add folio_mapcount Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 15/27] mm/memcg: Add folio wrappers for various functions Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 16/27] mm/filemap: Add unlock_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 17/27] mm/filemap: Add lock_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 18/27] mm/filemap: Add lock_folio_killable Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 19/27] mm/filemap: Add __lock_folio_async Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 20/27] mm/filemap: Add __lock_folio_or_retry Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 13:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 21/27] mm/filemap: Add wait_on_folio_locked Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 22/27] mm/filemap: Add end_folio_writeback Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 23/27] mm/writeback: Add wait_on_folio_writeback Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 24/27] mm/writeback: Add wait_for_stable_folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 25/27] mm/filemap: Convert wait_on_page_bit to wait_on_folio_bit Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 26/27] mm/filemap: Convert wake_up_page_bit to wake_up_folio_bit Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 18:47 ` [PATCH v6 27/27] mm/filemap: Convert page wait queues to be folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-06 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-01 7:05 ` [PATCH v6 00/27] Memory Folios Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-01 11:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-01 12:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-01 12:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-01 13:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-02 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-02 14:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-03 0:31 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2021-04-05 19:14 ` Jeff Layton
2021-04-05 19:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-06 15:14 ` Jeff Layton
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