On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 04:24:29PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > It's probably worth doing another roundup of where we are on our journey > to separating folios, slabs, pages, etc. Something suitable for people > who aren't MM experts, and don't care about the details of how page > allocation works. I can talk for hours about whatever people want to > hear about but some ideas from me: > > - Overview of how the conversion is going > - Convenience functions for filesystem writers > - What's next? > - What's the difference between &folio->page and page_folio(folio, 0)? > - What are we going to do about bio_vecs? > - How does all of this work with kmap()? > > I'm sure people would like to suggest other questions they have that > aren't adequately answered already and might be of interest to a wider > audience. Thanks for suggesting this, I would like to attend your discussion. If you have more recent phyr thoughts (possibly related to your bio_vecs point?), or other tie-ins to large block size support, that would also be great.
