Re: [PATCHSET v8 0/12] Uncached buffered IO

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 04:46:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Also, consuming a new page flag isn't a minor thing.  It would be nice
> > > to see some justification around this, and some decription of how many
> > > we have left.
> > 
> > For sure, though various discussions on this already occurred and Kirill
> > posted patches for unifying some of this already. It's not something I
> > wanted to tackle, as I think that should be left to people more familiar
> > with the page/folio flags and they (sometimes odd) interactions.
> 
> Matthew & Kirill: are you OK with merging this as-is and then
> revisiting the page-flag consumption at a later time?

I have tried to find a way to avoid adding a new flag bit, but I have not
found one. I am okay with merging it as it is.

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  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov