Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm: support splitting mappingless swapcache folios

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 8/7/26 23:22, Kairui Song wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 10:18:05AM +0800, Zi Yan wrote:
>> On Wed Aug 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM EDT, Kairui Song wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the CC, this is actually not hard to implement as shown by
>>> Shivam, I just found the code more and more hard to follow and fragile
>>> as we add more logic to it. And we don't have to reject higher order
>>> split either which can be seen easily if the code is cleaner.
>>>
>>> Personally I think doing some cleanup first is better, I haven't post any
>>> code as right now there doesn't seem to be much user of this. It will be
>>> needed if more clean THP swapcache begin to show up due to things like
>>> THP readahead for swap, which isn't here yet. I think I can send an RFC
>>> tomorrow just for reference. I'm fine if we prefer to remove that TODO
>>> using this smaller change first :)
>>
>> Thanks. Can you also help review this patchset? The changes looks good
>> to me but I am not sure if I get all the details about swapcache handling.
>>
>> -- 
>> Best Regards,
>> Yan, Zi
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, I got a bit busy so delayed for a day on that
> RFC.
> 
> For this series I think it's functionally fine, just the split logic is
> a bit complex to follow and we still have restriction on swap cache
> for order 0 uniform split only. I'll have a closer look later. Also
> let me know how you think about that RFC.

How does this patch set relate to your split cleanups? Is it still applicable
independently?

-- 
Cheers,

David