linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Guaranteed CMA

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:57:34 -0700
From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Guaranteed CMA

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 12:51:17PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > I'm guessing you missed my reply to your comment in the previous
> > submission: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJuCfpFs5aKv8E96YC_pasNjH6=eukTuS2X8f=nBGiiuE0Nwhg@mail.gmail.com/
> > Please check it out and follow up here or on the original thread.
>
> I didn't feel to comment on it.  Please don't just build abstractions
> on top of abstractions for no reason.  If you later have to introduce
> them add them when they are actually needed.

Ok, if it makes it easier to review the code, I'll do it. So, I can:
1. merge cleancache code (patch 1) with the GCMA code (patch 7). This
way all the logic will be together.
2. . LRU additiona (patch 2) and readahead support (patch 3) can stay
as incremental additions to GCMA, sysfs interface (patch 4) and
cleancache documentation (


>