linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: allocate folios according to the blocksize

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Message-ID: <71f872a5-781d-c805-9789-cd3aed024658@suse.de>
Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:30:21 +0200
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mcgrof@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: allocate folios according to the blocksize

On 4/17/23 08:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 08:08:04AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 4/17/23 06:36, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 03:49:08PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> If the blocksize is larger than the pagesize allocate folios
>>>> with the correct order.
>>>
>>> And how is that supposed to actually happen?
>>
>> By using my patcheset to brd and set the logical blocksize to eg 16k.
> 
> Then add it to your patchset instead of trying to add dead code to the
> kernel while also losing context.

Yeah, sorry. Was a bit overexcited here.

Cheers,

Hannes
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