[PATCH v1 06/10] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large anon folios

Yu Zhao yuzhao at google.com
Mon Jun 26 19:54:54 PDT 2023


On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 11:15 AM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com> wrote:
>
> With the introduction of large folios for anonymous memory, we would
> like to be able to split them when they have unmapped subpages, in order
> to free those unused pages under memory pressure. So remove the
> artificial requirement that the large folio needed to be at least
> PMD-sized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao at google.com>



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