linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 09/25] fs: Add a filesystem flag for large pages

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Message-ID: <20200212145900.GD7778@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:59:00 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/25] fs: Add a filesystem flag for large pages

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:43:18PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:18:29PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> > 
> > The page cache needs to know whether the filesystem supports pages >
> > PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Does it make sense to set this flag on the file_system_type, which
> is rather broad scope, or a specific superblock or even inode?
> 
> For some file systems we might require on-disk flags that aren't set
> for all instances.

I don't see why we'd need on-disk flags or need to control this on a
per-inode or per-sb basis.  My intent for this flag is to represent
whether the filesystem understands large pages; how the file is cached
should make no difference to the on-disk layout.