linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] add block size

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Message-ID: <ZvMaWrXkgZ9ZHKfS@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:00:26 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mcgrof@...nel.org, gost.dev@...sung.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] add block size > page size support to ramfs

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 09:23:49PM +0200, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> Add block size > page size to ramfs as we support minimum folio order
> allocation in the page cache. The changes are very minimal, and this is
> also a nice way to stress test just the page cache changes for minimum
> folio order.

I don't really see the point of upstreaming this.  I'm sure it was
useful for your testing.  And splitting the patch in two makes no sense
to me; the combined patch is not large.

> Pankaj Raghav (2):
>   ramfs: add blocksize mount option
>   ramfs: enable block size > page size
> 
>  fs/ramfs/inode.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)