Re: Discontiguous folios/pagesets

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 28, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The current folio work is focused on permitting the VM to use
> physically contiguous chunks of memory.  Both Darrick and Johannes
> have pointed out the advantages of supporting logically-contiguous,
> physically-discontiguous chunks of memory.  Johannes wants to be able to
> use order-0 allocations to allocate larger folios, getting the benefit
> of managing the memory in larger chunks without requiring the memory
> allocator to be able to find contiguous chunks.  Darrick wants to support
> non-power-of-two block sizes.

What is the use case for non-power-of-two block sizes?  The main question
is whether that use case is important enough to add the complexity and
overhead in order to support it?

Cheers, Andreas

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