On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:41:00 +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> The special casing was originally added in pre-git history; reproducing
> the commit log here:
>
> > commit a318a92567d77
> > Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun Sep 21 01:42:22 2003 -0700
> >
> > [PATCH] Speed up direct-io hugetlbpage handling
> >
> > This patch short-circuits all the direct-io page dirtying logic for
> > higher-order pages. Without this, we pointlessly bounce BIOs up to
> > keventd all the time.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] block: Remove special-casing of compound pages
commit: 1b151e2435fc3a9b10c8946c6aebe9f3e1938c55
Best regards,
--
Jens Axboe
