[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] State Of The Page

Amir Goldstein amir73il at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 02:10:32 PST 2024


On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 6:24 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> It's probably worth doing another roundup of where we are on our journey
> to separating folios, slabs, pages, etc.  Something suitable for people
> who aren't MM experts, and don't care about the details of how page
> allocation works.  I can talk for hours about whatever people want to
> hear about but some ideas from me:
>
>  - Overview of how the conversion is going
>  - Convenience functions for filesystem writers
>  - What's next?
>  - What's the difference between &folio->page and page_folio(folio, 0)?
>  - What are we going to do about bio_vecs?
>  - How does all of this work with kmap()?
>
> I'm sure people would like to suggest other questions they have that
> aren't adequately answered already and might be of interest to a wider
> audience.
>

Matthew,

And everyone else who suggests LSF/MM/BPF topic.

Please do not forget to also fill out the Google form:

          https://forms.gle/TGCgBDH1x5pXiWFo7

So we have your attendance request with suggested topics in our spreadsheet.

Thanks,
Amir.



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