From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] Allow file-backed or shared device private pages
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:04:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z9e7Vye7OHSbEEx_@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.24b48fced909fe1414e83b58aa468d4393dd06de.1742099301.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com>
On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 03:29:23PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> This series lifts that restriction by allowing ZONE_DEVICE private pages to
> exist in the pagecache.
You'd better provide a really good argument for why we'd even want
to do that. So far this cover letter fails to do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-17 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-16 4:29 [PATCH RFC 0/6] Allow file-backed or shared device private pages Alistair Popple
2025-03-16 4:29 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] mm/migrate_device.c: Don't read dirty bit of non-present PTEs Alistair Popple
2025-03-16 4:29 ` [PATCH RFC 2/6] mm/migrate: Support file-backed pages with migrate_vma Alistair Popple
2025-03-16 4:29 ` [PATCH RFC 3/6] mm: Allow device private pages to exist in page cache Alistair Popple
2025-03-16 4:29 ` [PATCH RFC 4/6] mm: Implement writeback for share device private pages Alistair Popple
2025-03-16 4:29 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6] selftests/hmm: Add file-backed migration tests Alistair Popple
2025-03-16 4:29 ` [PATCH RFC 6/6] nouveau: Add SVM support for migrating file-backed pages to the GPU Alistair Popple
2025-03-17 6:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-03-26 2:14 ` [PATCH RFC 0/6] Allow file-backed or shared device private pages Matthew Wilcox
2025-03-27 14:49 ` Alistair Popple
2025-03-27 16:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-07 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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