lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Oct]   [5]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15
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

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-10-05 21:59    [W:0.197 / U:0.136 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site