Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Enable >0 order folio memory compaction

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Fri Feb 02 2024 - 14:55:56 EST


On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 11:15:51AM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This patchset enables >0 order folio memory compaction, which is one of
> the prerequisitions for large folio support[1].
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230912162815.440749-1-zi.yan@xxxxxxxx/

This URL started being referenced to your patch series instead of the
rationale as to why this is important, and that is that compaction today
skips pages with order > 0 and that this is already a problem for the
page cache. The correct URL which you had in your *first* cover letter
is:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/f8d47176-03a8-99bf-a813-b5942830fd73@xxxxxxx/

Luis