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From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Folio discussion recap
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:17:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUUF1WsAoWGmeAJ4@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210917205735.tistsacwwzkcdklx@box.shutemov.name>

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:57:35PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:31:36PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > I didn't suggest to change what the folio currently already is for the
> > page cache. I asked to keep anon pages out of it (and in the future
> > potentially other random stuff that is using compound pages).
> 
> It would mean that anon-THP cannot benefit from the work Willy did with
> folios. Anon-THP is the most active user of compound pages at the moment
> and it also suffers from the compound_head() plague. You ask to exclude
> anon-THP siting *possible* future benefits for pagecache.
> 
> Sorry, but this doesn't sound fair to me.

I'm less concerned with what's fair than figuring out what the consensus is so
we can move forward. I agree that anonymous THPs could benefit greatly from
conversion to folios - but looking at the code it doesn't look like much of that
has been done yet.

I understand you've had some input into the folio patches, so maybe you'd be
best able to answer while Matthew is away - would it be fair to say that, in the
interests of moving forward, anonymous pages could be split out for now? That
way the MM people gain time to come to their own consensus and we can still
unblock the FS work that's already been done on top of folios.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-17 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 162+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-23 19:01 [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15 Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-23 21:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-23 22:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24  2:20     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-24 13:04     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-23 22:15   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-24 18:32     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-24 18:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-25  6:39         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-24 19:44       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-25 15:13         ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-26  0:45           ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-27 14:07             ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-27 18:44               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-27 21:41                 ` Dan Williams
2021-08-27 21:49                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-30 17:32                 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-30 18:22                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-30 20:27                     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-30 21:38                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-31 17:40                         ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01 17:43                         ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-02 15:13                           ` Zi Yan
2021-09-06 14:00                             ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-08-31 18:50                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-26  8:58         ` David Howells
2021-08-27 10:03           ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-27 12:05             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-27 10:49           ` David Howells
2021-08-24 15:54   ` David Howells
2021-08-24 17:56     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-24 18:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24 18:29         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24 19:26           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-24 19:34           ` David Howells
2021-08-24 20:02             ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-24 21:32             ` David Howells
2021-08-25 12:08               ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-24 19:01         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-24 19:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24 19:23             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-24 19:44               ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-24 20:00                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-25  6:32                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-25  9:01                   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-08-26  6:32                     ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-25 12:03                   ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-26  0:59                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-26  4:02                   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-09-01 12:58                 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-08-24 19:35             ` David Howells
2021-08-24 20:35               ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-08-24 20:40                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-08-24 19:11         ` David Howells
2021-08-24 19:25           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24 19:38             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24 19:48               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-26 17:18                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-24 19:59             ` David Howells
2021-10-05 13:52   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-05 17:29     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-05 17:32       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-05 18:30       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-05 19:56         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-28  3:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-09 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-09 13:56   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-09 18:16     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-09 18:44       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-09 22:03         ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-09 22:48           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-09 19:17     ` John Hubbard
2021-09-09 19:23       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-10 20:16 ` Folio discussion recap Kent Overstreet
2021-09-11  1:23   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-13 11:32     ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-13 18:12       ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-15 15:40   ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-15 17:55     ` Damian Tometzki
2021-09-16  2:58     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-16 16:54       ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-17  5:24         ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-17  7:18           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-17 16:31           ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-17 20:57             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-17 21:17               ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2021-09-17 22:02                 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-17 22:21                   ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-17 23:15               ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-20 10:03                 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-17 21:13             ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-17 22:25               ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-17 23:35                 ` Josef Bacik
2021-09-18  1:04             ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-18  4:51               ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-20  1:04                 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-16 21:58       ` David Howells
2021-09-20  2:17   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-21 19:47     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-21 20:38       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-21 21:11         ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-21 21:22           ` Folios for 5.15 request - Was: re: Folio discussion recap - Kent Overstreet
2021-09-22 15:08             ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-22 15:46               ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-22 16:26                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-22 16:56                   ` Chris Mason
2021-09-22 19:54                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-22 20:15                       ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-22 20:21                       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-23  5:42               ` Kent Overstreet
2021-09-23 18:00                 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-23 19:31                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-23 20:20                   ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-16  3:28               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-18 16:47                 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-18 18:12                   ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-18 20:45                     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-19 16:11                       ` Splitting struct page into multiple types " Kent Overstreet
2021-10-19 17:06                         ` Gao Xiang
2021-10-19 17:34                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-19 17:54                             ` Gao Xiang
2021-10-20 17:46                               ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-19 17:37                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-19 21:14                       ` David Howells
2021-10-18 18:28                   ` Folios for 5.15 request " Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-18 21:56                     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-18 23:16                       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-10-19 15:16                         ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-20  3:19                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-20  7:50                           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-20 17:26                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-20 18:04                               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-21  6:51                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-21  7:21                                   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-21 12:03                                     ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-21 12:35                                       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-21 12:38                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-21 13:00                                           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-21 12:41                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-20 17:39                           ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-21 21:37                             ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-22  1:52                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-22  7:59                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-22 13:01                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-22 14:40                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-23  2:22                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-23  5:02                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-23  9:58                                         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-23 16:00                                           ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-23 21:41                                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-23 22:23                                               ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-25 15:35                                 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-10-25 15:52                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-25 16:05                                   ` Kent Overstreet
2021-10-16 19:07               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-18 17:25                 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-09-21 22:18           ` Folio discussion recap Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-23  0:45             ` Ira Weiny
2021-09-23  3:41               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-23 22:12                 ` Ira Weiny
2021-09-29 15:24                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-21 21:59         ` Johannes Weiner

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