Re: [RFC v2 0/8] add support for blocksize > PAGE_SIZE

Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-26T08:28:21Z

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 01:18:19AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 01:14:55AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > This is an initial attempt to add support for block size > PAGE_SIZE for tmpfs.
> >
> > The concept of a block size doesn't make any sense for tmpfs. What
> > are you actually trying to do here?
>
> More of helping to test high order folios for tmpfs. Swap for instance
> would be one thing we could use to test.

I'm still not sure where the concept of a block size would come in here.