From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Struct page proposal
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:34:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjaL3xcv6LL=1+WdaicaDngvNOTCYU5c9UF_MTsibWBSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVIFNf/xZwlrWstK@moria.home.lan>
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:54 AM Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That list_head is the problematic one. Why do we need to be able to take a page
> from the middle of a freelist?
At least for the merging with the buddy page case.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-27 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-23 1:21 Struct page proposal Kent Overstreet
2021-09-23 3:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-23 5:15 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-23 11:40 ` Mapcount of subpages Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-23 12:45 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-23 21:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-09-23 21:54 ` Yang Shi
2021-09-23 22:23 ` Zi Yan
2021-09-23 23:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-09-24 0:25 ` Zi Yan
2021-09-24 0:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-09-24 1:11 ` Yang Shi
2021-09-24 1:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-24 3:26 ` Yang Shi
2021-09-24 23:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-23 18:56 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-09-23 9:03 ` Struct page proposal David Hildenbrand
2021-09-23 15:22 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-23 15:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-27 17:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-27 17:53 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-27 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-09-27 20:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-27 18:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-27 18:09 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-27 18:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-27 18:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-27 18:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-27 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-27 18:16 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-28 3:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-27 19:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-27 20:14 ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-28 11:21 ` David Laight
2021-09-27 18:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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