Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v2] f2fs: another way to set large folio by remembering inode number

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 03:31:08AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > And what are you trying to say us with that?
> > 
> > This means, high-order pages were used up by EROFS which sets large folio by
> > default. So, I wanted to say the concern was based on actual data which was what
> > Mattew asked.
> 
> This isn't that though.  What you actually need is to show that high order
> allocations are _failing_.

Exactly.

> If what you want is large folios readily available, then what you want
> is large folios used _everywhere_ because then they're easy to get!

Yes.

> If there's small folios in use, you need to reclaim a lot of memory in
> order to reassemble large folios (it's the birthday paradox, similar to
> the hash collision problem).

Yeah.  Although it seems we have an issue with > order costly folios
at the moment, but we should fix this.

And f2fs really needs to up the game and support large folios fully
so that we can run that kind of analysis there as well, without this
all this is just piling hacks on top of other hacks.