Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] mm: Make pagecache tagged lookups return only head pages

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:26:26PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Pagecache tags are used for dirty page writeback.  Since dirtiness is
> tracked on a per-THP basis, we only want to return the head page rather
> than each subpage of a tagged page.  All the filesystems which use huge
> pages today are in-memory, so there are no tagged huge pages today.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>




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