Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] Control folio sizes used for page cache memory

[Andi Kleen]

Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> This series is an RFC that adds sysfs and kernel cmdline controls to configure
> the set of allowed large folio sizes that can be used when allocating
> file-memory for the page cache. As part of the control mechanism, it provides
> for a special-case "preferred folio size for executable mappings" marker.
>
> I'm trying to solve 2 separate problems with this series:
>

What happened to this patchkit? I was looking into how to efficiently
get larger pages for text transparently, and there doesn't seem
to be anything better than such a heuristic?

Thanks,
-Andi