Re: [PATCH v5] fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:39:33 -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool

Sashiko reported some issues with this which make half-sense, I think
but it's dismissble. TL;DR it claims that 6 excess pages per pipe may
linger (with some splice sheanigans) until the next pipe use (read or
write) or close. Sounds ok to me.

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Applied to the vfs-7.3.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.3.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-7.3.misc

[1/1] fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/bffc603d5fd2