On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:18:32 -0400 Zi Yan <zi.yan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > File folio supports any order and people would like to support flexible orders > > > for anonymous folio[1] too. Currently, split_huge_page() only splits a huge > > > page to order-0 pages, but splitting to orders higher than 0 is also useful. > > > This patchset adds support for splitting a huge page to any lower order pages > > > and uses it during file folio truncate operations. > > > > This series (and its v1 & v2) don't appear to have much in the way of > > detailed review. As it's at v3 and has been fairly stable I'll queue > > it up for some testing now, but I do ask that some reviewers go through > > it please. > > Andrew, please don't let this series drift into 6.4-rc1. I have it still parked awaiting some reviewer input. > I've seen a bug or two (I'll point out in response to those patches), > but overall I don't see what the justification for the series is: done > because it could be done, it seems to me, but liable to add surprises. > > The cover letter says "splitting to orders higher than 0 is also useful", > but it's not clear why; and the infrastructure provided seems unsuited > to the one use provided - I'll say more on that truncation patch. OK, I'll drop the series for this cycle.
