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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 00/27] Memory Folios
    On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:47:01PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
    > The medium-term goal is to convert all filesystems and some device
    > drivers to work in terms of folios. This series contains a lot of
    > explicit conversions, but it's important to realise it's removing a lot
    > of implicit conversions in some relatively hot paths. There will be very
    > few conversions from folios when this work is completed; filesystems,
    > the page cache, the LRU and so on will generally only deal with folios.

    I'm pretty excited for this to land - 4k page overhead has been a pain point for
    me for quite some time. I know this is going to be a lot of churn but I think
    leveraging the type system is exactly the right way to go about this, and I
    can't wait to start converting bcachefs.

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