From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Allocate and free frozen pages
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:13:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvWbJZnrR7x/MimU@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220811001956.vll2fzea3aohhc2i@google.com>
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:19:56AM +0000, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 06:18:38PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > This patchset is also a step towards the Glorious Future in which struct
> > page doesn't have a refcount; the users which need a refcount will have
> > one in their per-allocation memdesc.
> >
>
> Can you please share a bit more details about this glorious future? How
> do you envision the per-allocation memdesc will work?
Hopefully the 'State of the Page' email answers your questions. If not,
let me know and I can go into more detail (or admit I haven't thought
about the detail you're asking about).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-12 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 17:18 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] mm/page_alloc: Cache page_zone() result in free_unref_page() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-10 1:56 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-08-10 6:31 ` Muchun Song
2022-08-10 15:00 ` Mel Gorman
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] mm/page_alloc: Rename free_the_page() to free_frozen_pages() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-10 6:36 ` Muchun Song
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] mm/page_alloc: Export free_frozen_pages() instead of free_unref_page() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-10 3:00 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-08-10 6:37 ` Muchun Song
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of post_alloc_hook() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-10 3:30 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of prep_new_page() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of get_page_from_freelist() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of __alloc_pages_cpuset_fallback() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of __alloc_pages_may_oom() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of __alloc_pages_direct_compact() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to callers of __alloc_pages_slowpath() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] mm/page_alloc: Move set_page_refcounted() to end of __alloc_pages() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] mm/page_alloc: Add __alloc_frozen_pages() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] mm/mempolicy: Add alloc_frozen_pages() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] slab: Allocate frozen pages Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-10 12:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-08-10 16:27 ` Mel Gorman
2022-08-09 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] slub: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-08-11 0:19 ` [PATCH v2 00/16] Allocate and free " Shakeel Butt
2022-08-12 0:13 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-08-12 16:48 ` Shakeel Butt
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