On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 01:39:06PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Thanks very much! Yeah just keen to get this in as we are moving towards > > removing these fields very soon. > > My understanding is that this is a part of larger effort to reduce > struct page to 8 bytes and an optionally dynamically allocated slightly > larger structure, is that correct? Just curious. Broadly yes indeed, it's a big lot of unnecessary memory usage and a key long term mm project (of Matthew's, I am merely a humble helper in this area :) If you're curious, you can read Matthew's latest update on the project at [0]. [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Z37pxbkHPbLYnDKn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > Could you take this in your tree? I think that'd work best. > > Sure, will do. Thanks! > > Thanks, > -- > Alex
