Re: [PATCH v5 0/10] transfer page to folio in KSM

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On 4/11/24 3:55 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 11.04.24 08:17, alexs@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: "Alex Shi (tencent)" <alexs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This is the first part of page to folio transfer on KSM. Since only
>> single page could be stored in KSM, we could safely transfer stable tree
>> pages to folios.
>> This patchset could reduce ksm.o 57kbytes from 2541776 bytes on latest
>> akpm/mm-stable branch with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled. It pass the KSM testing
>> in LTP and kernel selftest.
> 
> Just a nit (no need to address for this patch set): "transfer page to folio" sounds very misleading to me. I'm not a native speaker, but I'd have called this patch set
> 
> "mm/ksm: convert some KSM code to use folios"
> 
> It's rather code conversion/transformation, not a transfer.
> 
> But again, I'm not a native speaker ...
> 

Uh, me neither. but sounds you're right. I will take care this next time.

Thanks
Alex




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