Re: [PATCH v10 7/8] mm, folio_zero_user: support clearing page ranges

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Dec 17 2025 - 15:26:11 EST


On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:51:43 -0800 Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If so, what's the timing on that? It would be nice to do it in the
> > current -rc cycle for testing reasons and so the changelogs can be
> > updated to reflect the altered performance numbers.
>
> I can send out an updated version of this patch later today. I think the
> only real change is updating the constant and perf stats motivating
> the chunk size value of 32MB.

Yep. A tiny change wouldn't normally require a full resend, but fairly
widespread changelog updates would best be handled with a v11, please.

> Anything else you also think needs doing for this?

Nope. Just lots of review, as always ;)

What's the story with architectures other that x86, btw?