Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 2021 16:56:02 -0300 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15 |
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 07:30:06PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Outside of core MM developers, I'm not sure that a lot of people > know that a struct page might represent 2^n pages of memory. Even > architecture maintainers seem to be pretty fuzzy on what > flush_dcache_page() does for compound pages: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arch/20200818150736.GQ17456@casper.infradead.org/
I definitely second that opinion
A final outcome where we still have struct page refering to all kinds of different things feels like a missed opportunity to me.
Jason
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