linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV

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Message-Id: <20250311210326.85632-1-sj@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:03:26 -0700
From: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <howlett@...il.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:49:38 +0000 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:

> The below commit message talks about tlb bits, but you spend a lot of this
> series refactoring mm/madvise.c.
> 
> Can we just separate out the two into separate series please?
> 
> I am doing the same kind of thing with mremap() at the moment, but sent the
> refactor _first_ before the work that builds upon it :)
> 
> Your refactoring is great, so I want to be able to take that (and Andrew's
> objections obviously don't apply there), and then we can address tlb stuff
> separately and in a more focused way.

Thank you for the nice suggestion and I agree.  I will separate those in the
next spin.


Thanks,
SJ

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