linux-kernel - Re: Folios for 5.15 request - Was: re: Folio discussion recap -

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:03:37 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Folios for 5.15 request - Was: re: Folio discussion recap -

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 09:21:17AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 21.10.21 08:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > FYI, with my block and direct I/O developer hat on I really, really
> > want to have the folio for both file and anon pages.  Because to make
> > the get_user_pages path a _lot_ more efficient it should store folios.
> > And to make that work I need them to work for file and anon pages
> > because for get_user_pages and related code they are treated exactly
> > the same.

++

> Thanks, I can understand that. And IMHO that would be even possible with
> split types; the function prototype will simply have to look a little
> more fancy instead of replacing "struct page" by "struct folio". :)

Possible yes, but might it be a little premature to split them?