From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@pankajraghav.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] add static huge zero folio support
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 13:28:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a39bcff-d0cf-4c1e-a076-f676a9ace4ba@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sqpsvjefzukhqbumjmnhsotixw2vpdy76d3batdtlbztzk4q5w@osrjvx22pvah>
On 06.08.25 10:31, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 09:00:40AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 8/4/25 05:13, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
>>> Add a config option STATIC_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO that will always allocate
>>> the huge_zero_folio, and it will never drop the reference.
>>
>> "static" is a really odd naming choice for a dynamically allocated
>> structure. It's one that's never freed, sure, but it's still dynamically
>> allocated in the first place.
>
> That is a fair point.
>
> I like the rename you did to PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO instead of
> STATIC_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO as we still allocate it dynamically.
>
> @David, @Lorenzo and @Zi: Does the rename sound good to you?
Yes, sounds good.
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-06 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-04 12:13 [PATCH 0/5] add static huge zero folio support Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 12:13 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: rename huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 18:14 ` Zi Yan
2025-08-04 12:13 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: rename MMF_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE to MMF_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 15:24 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-04 16:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-04 18:04 ` Zi Yan
2025-08-04 12:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: add static huge zero folio Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 16:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-04 17:07 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-04 17:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-04 17:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 10:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-05 11:40 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-05 12:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-05 13:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-06 12:18 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-06 12:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-06 12:28 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-06 12:36 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-06 12:43 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-06 12:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-05 16:33 ` Dave Hansen
2025-08-06 8:26 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 12:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: add largest_zero_folio() routine Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 16:50 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 11:24 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 18:13 ` Zi Yan
2025-08-05 16:42 ` Dave Hansen
2025-08-06 7:59 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 12:13 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: use largest_zero_folio in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages() Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-04 16:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 16:00 ` [PATCH 0/5] add static huge zero folio support Dave Hansen
2025-08-06 8:31 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-08-06 11:28 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
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