linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] add mTHP support for anonymous shmem

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Message-ID: <6d4c0191-18a9-4c8f-8814-d4775557383e@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 21:19:10 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hughd@...gle.com, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com,
 ying.huang@...el.com, 21cnbao@...il.com, ryan.roberts@....com,
 shy828301@...il.com, ziy@...dia.com, ioworker0@...il.com,
 da.gomez@...sung.com, p.raghav@...sung.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] add mTHP support for anonymous shmem

On 04.07.24 21:03, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> shmem has two uses:
>>
>>    - MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED (this patch set)
>>    - tmpfs
>>
>> For the second use case we don't want controls *at all*, we want the
>> same heiristics used for all other filesystems to apply to tmpfs.
> 
> As discussed in the MM meeting, Hugh had a different opinion on that.

FWIW, I just recalled that I wrote a quick summary:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1783ff0-65bd-4b2b-8952-52b6822a0835@redhat.com

I believe the meetings are recorded as well, but never looked at recordings.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb