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Message-ID: <adf9d74c-6f22-4653-a27d-c50f7320efd1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:45:14 +0800
From: Alex Shi <seakeel@...il.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, alexs@...nel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zik.eidus@...ellosystems.com,
willy@...radead.org, aarcange@...hat.com, hughd@...gle.com,
chrisw@...s-sol.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/10] transfer page to folio in KSM
On 4/11/24 3:55 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 11.04.24 08:17, alexs@...nel.org wrote:
>> From: "Alex Shi (tencent)" <alexs@...nel.org>
>>
>> This is the first part of page to folio transfer on KSM. Since only
>> single page could be stored in KSM, we could safely transfer stable tree
>> pages to folios.
>> This patchset could reduce ksm.o 57kbytes from 2541776 bytes on latest
>> akpm/mm-stable branch with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled. It pass the KSM testing
>> in LTP and kernel selftest.
>
> Just a nit (no need to address for this patch set): "transfer page to folio" sounds very misleading to me. I'm not a native speaker, but I'd have called this patch set
>
> "mm/ksm: convert some KSM code to use folios"
>
> It's rather code conversion/transformation, not a transfer.
>
> But again, I'm not a native speaker ...
>
Uh, me neither. but sounds you're right. I will take care this next time.
Thanks
Alex
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