From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:22:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUybu+OCpCM2lZJu@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e567ad16-0f2b-940b-a39b-a4d1505bfcb9@redhat.com>
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:03:44AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, but before there are answers to some of the very basic
> questions raised above (especially everything that lives in page->flags,
> which are not only page flags, refcount, ...) this isn't very tempting to
> spend more time on, from a reviewer perspective.
Did you miss the part of the folios discussion where we were talking about how
acrimonious it had gotten and why, and talking about (Chris Mason in particular)
writing design docs up front and how they'd been pretty successful in other
places?
We're trying something new here, and trying to give people an opportunity to
discussion what we're trying to do _before_ dumping thousands and thousands of
lines of refactoring patches on the list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-23 15:22 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 [this message]
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
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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