Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 3 authors, 2021-12-22

Re: [PATCH v4 17/23] block: add check when merging zone device pages

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-12-21 09:06:01
Also in: linux-iommu, linux-mm, linux-nvme, linux-pci, lkml

+/*
+ * Consecutive zone device pages should not be merged into the same sgl
+ * or bvec segment with other types of pages or if they belong to different
+ * pgmaps. Otherwise getting the pgmap of a given segment is not possible
+ * without scanning the entire segment. This helper returns true either if
+ * both pages are not zone device pages or both pages are zone device pages
+ * with the same pgmap.
+ */
+static inline bool zone_device_pages_are_mergeable(const struct page *a,
+						   const struct page *b)
Merging is only really a use case here.  This really checks if they
belong to the same pgmap, so I suspect that should be in the name.
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