From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com, willy@infradead.org,
ziy@nvidia.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com,
ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: shmem: fix the strategy for the tmpfs 'huge=' options
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:23:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70841ec1-0d14-4fc3-a2be-fd5640f9670d@lucifer.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a689e9f-082b-497d-a32b-afc3feddcdb8@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:30:20AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> There were opinions in the past that tmpfs should just behave like any other
> fs, and I think that's what we tried to satisfy here: use the write size as
> an indication.
Indeed, it feels like we have too much 'special snowflake' stuff for shmem
anyway. Each instance of those adds more ways to get bugs/unexpected
behaviour.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-30 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-30 8:14 Baolin Wang
2025-07-30 9:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-30 15:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2025-07-31 2:41 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-30 15:17 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-31 2:57 ` Baolin Wang
2025-08-12 8:35 ` Baolin Wang
2025-08-13 6:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2025-08-14 10:03 ` Baolin Wang
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