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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] alloc_tag: config to store page allocation tag refs in page flags
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 03:18:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZtfDiH3lZ9ozxm0v@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47c4ef47-3948-4e46-8ea5-6af747293b18@nvidia.com>

On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 06:25:52PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> The more I read this story, the clearer it becomes that this should be
> entirely done by the build system: set it, or don't set it, automatically.
> 
> And if you can make it not even a kconfig item at all, that's probably even
> better.
> 
> And if there is no way to set it automatically, then that probably means
> that the feature is still too raw to unleash upon the world.

I'd suggest that this implementation is just too whack.

What if you use a maple tree for this?  For each allocation range, you
can store a pointer to a tag instead of storing an index in each folio.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-04  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-02  4:41 [PATCH v2 0/6] page allocation tag compression Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  4:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] maple_tree: add mas_for_each_rev() helper Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  4:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] alloc_tag: load module tags into separate continuous memory Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  4:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] alloc_tag: eliminate alloc_tag_ref_set Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  4:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] alloc_tag: introduce pgalloc_tag_ref to abstract page tag references Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  4:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] alloc_tag: make page allocation tag reference size configurable Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  5:09   ` Andrew Morton
2024-09-04  1:07     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04  1:16       ` Kent Overstreet
2024-09-04  2:04         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04 16:25           ` Kent Overstreet
2024-09-04 16:35             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  4:41 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] alloc_tag: config to store page allocation tag refs in page flags Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-02  5:16   ` Andrew Morton
2024-09-03 18:19     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04  1:25       ` John Hubbard
2024-09-04  2:05         ` John Hubbard
2024-09-04 16:08           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04 18:58             ` John Hubbard
2024-09-04 21:07               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04  2:18         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-09-04 16:18           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04 16:21             ` Kent Overstreet
2024-09-04 16:35             ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-04 16:37               ` Kent Overstreet
2024-09-04 16:39                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-09-04  2:41         ` Kent Overstreet

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