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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:14:08 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Cc: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, Michal Koutný
<mkoutny@...e.com>, Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@...gle.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages
(except order-1).
On 13.02.24 23:05, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 04:55:18PM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
>> From: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
>> Order-1 folio is not supported because _deferred_list, which is used by
>> partially mapped folios, is stored in subpage 2 and an order-1 folio only
>> has subpage 0 and 1.
>
> The LBS patches has the patch from Matthew which enables and allowed us
> to successfully test order 1. So this restriction could be dropped if
> that gets merged.
For anon folios it will still be in place, so the restriction will only
be dropped for !anon.
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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