On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:43:29 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Is it possible to get Willy's folios patchset - or at least the core of it - > staged for the next merge window? I'm working on improvements to the local > filesystem caching code and the network filesystem support library and that > involves a lot of dealing with pages - all of which will need to be converted > to the folios stuff. This has the potential to conflict with the changes > Willy's patches make to filesystems. Further, the folios patchset offers some > facilities that make my changes a bit easier - and some changes that make > things a bit more challenging (e.g. page size becoming variable). It's about that time. However there's a discussion at present which might result in significant renamings, so I'll wait until that has panned out. > Also, is it possible to get the folios patchset in a stable public git branch > that I can base my patches upon? I guess Willy's tree, but I doubt if the folio patches will be reliably stable for some time (a few weeks?)
