Re: [PATCH 2/2] radix-tree: Fix optimisation problem

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On Saturday, September 24, 2016, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well, my ext4-with-huge-pages patchset[1] uses multi-order entries.
> It also converts shmem-with-huge-pages and hugetlb to them.

Ok, so that code actually has a chance of being used. I guess we'll
not remove it. But I *would* like this subtle issue to have a comment
around that odd cast/and/mask thing.

            Linus

My DAX PMD patches will use multi-order entries as well. 

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