Thread (78 messages) 78 messages, 7 authors, 2021-08-25

Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-14 21:48:35
Also in: linux-mm, nvdimm

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:35:28 +0100 Joao Martins [off-list ref] wrote:
This series, attempts at minimizing 'struct page' overhead by
pursuing a similar approach as Muchun Song series "Free some vmemmap
pages of hugetlb page"[0] but applied to devmap/ZONE_DEVICE which is now
in mmotm. 

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210308102807.59745-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/ (local)
[0] is now in mainline.

This patch series looks like it'll clash significantly with the folio
work and it is pretty thinly reviewed, so I think I'll take a pass for
now.  Matthew, thoughts?
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