From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4541770 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DCCE6128B; Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:48:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1626299311; bh=sm6E/cbteIMU7Qx63UQrMGOgDgJUOWcBWsYvE7fWGnE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=LcfdOszA4jr3910Y2aYZb+/wqExxuo8m4IfDbZeRsgsuuSO0V5U2tJEzhmuVuSH3n 4YY11zKSmpdTlfu6K4XTlHnO4/gU5hFcVqnAFv8sQGeEisNUeJKGJBv1H+q+S4gc7q hnVnGR3Dt+OlShBPewICHWBbLoUKSqQ0IPlhkstY= Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:48:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joao Martins Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Dan Williams , Vishal Verma , Dave Jiang , Naoya Horiguchi , Matthew Wilcox , Jason Gunthorpe , John Hubbard , Jane Chu , Muchun Song , Mike Kravetz , Jonathan Corbet , nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps Message-Id: <20210714144830.29f9584878b04903079ef7eb@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20210714193542.21857-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> References: <20210714193542.21857-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:35:28 +0100 Joao Martins wrote: > This series, attempts at minimizing 'struct page' overhead by > pursuing a similar approach as Muchun Song series "Free some vmemmap > pages of hugetlb page"[0] but applied to devmap/ZONE_DEVICE which is now > in mmotm. > > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210308102807.59745-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/ [0] is now in mainline. This patch series looks like it'll clash significantly with the folio work and it is pretty thinly reviewed, so I think I'll take a pass for now. Matthew, thoughts?