Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Allocate and free frozen pages

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:13 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:19:56AM +0000, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 06:18:38PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > This patchset is also a step towards the Glorious Future in which struct
> > > page doesn't have a refcount; the users which need a refcount will have
> > > one in their per-allocation memdesc.
> > >
> >
> > Can you please share a bit more details about this glorious future? How
> > do you envision the per-allocation memdesc will work?
>
> Hopefully the 'State of the Page' email answers your questions.  If not,
> let me know and I can go into more detail (or admit I haven't thought
> about the detail you're asking about).

Thanks, that is helpful. I will ask questions there if I have any.




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