From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
songmuchun@bytedance.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] mm/filemap: remove hugetlb special casing in filemap.c
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:24:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230818122440.e48c3ec75a594e67df13292c@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71864148-6493-30fc-ada4-6bc242b6176f@oracle.com>
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:54:24 -0700 Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> wrote:
> yes, the motivation for this patch came from the discussion about the
> various places in mm where hugetlb is special cased and how there should
> be an effort to unify these cases. As Matthew mentions, this series gets
> rid of branches that would occur on every page cache lookup.
Thanks. Could we please get all this spelled out in the changelog?
Probably in a few days, give people time to review the patch itself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-18 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-17 18:18 [PATCH v6] mm/filemap: remove hugetlb special casing in filemap.c Sidhartha Kumar
2023-08-18 18:03 ` Andrew Morton
2023-08-18 18:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-18 18:34 ` Mike Kravetz
2023-08-18 18:54 ` Sidhartha Kumar
2023-08-18 19:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-08-21 18:33 ` Mike Kravetz
2023-09-05 4:05 ` Sidhartha Kumar
2023-09-07 0:18 ` Mike Kravetz
2023-08-22 17:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
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