Re: [PATCH 0/8] Folio Prequel patches

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On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:55:41 +0100
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> These patches have all been posted before and not picked up yet.  I've
> built the folio patches on top of them; while they are not necessarily
> prerequisites in the conceptual sense, I'm not convinced that the
> folio patches will build without them.  The nth_page patch is purely
> an efficiency question, while patch 5 ("Make compound_head
> const-preserving") is required for the current implementation of
> page_folio().  Patch 8 ("Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems")
> is required for the struct folio layout to match struct page layout
> on said 32-bit systems (arm, mips, ppc).
> 
> They are on top of next-20210430
> 

I'm running them since a couple days on an arm64 machine which uses the
page_pool API. No issues so far.

Regards,
-- 
per aspera ad upstream




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