Re: [PATCH v4 00/25] Page folios

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Mar 19 2021 - 00:03:25 EST


On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 04:18:36AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Our type system does not currently distinguish between tail pages and
> head or single pages. This is a problem because we call compound_head()
> multiple times (and the compiler cannot optimise it out), bloating the
> kernel. It also makes programming hard as it is often unclear whether
> a function operates on an individual page, or an entire compound page.

I've pushed a new version out here:
https://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git/shortlog/refs/heads/folio

I think it takes into account everyone's comments so far. It even compiles.