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Message-Id: <20210713191101.b38013786e36286e78c9648c@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:11:01 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request for folios
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:43:29 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Is it possible to get Willy's folios patchset - or at least the core of it -
> staged for the next merge window? I'm working on improvements to the local
> filesystem caching code and the network filesystem support library and that
> involves a lot of dealing with pages - all of which will need to be converted
> to the folios stuff. This has the potential to conflict with the changes
> Willy's patches make to filesystems. Further, the folios patchset offers some
> facilities that make my changes a bit easier - and some changes that make
> things a bit more challenging (e.g. page size becoming variable).
It's about that time. However there's a discussion at present which
might result in significant renamings, so I'll wait until that has
panned out.
> Also, is it possible to get the folios patchset in a stable public git branch
> that I can base my patches upon?
I guess Willy's tree, but I doubt if the folio patches will be reliably
stable for some time (a few weeks?)
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