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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 3:21=E2=80=AFAM Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ryan Roberts writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > This series is an RFC that adds sysfs and kernel cmdline controls to co= nfigure > > the set of allowed large folio sizes that can be used when allocating > > file-memory for the page cache. As part of the control mechanism, it pr= ovides > > for a special-case "preferred folio size for executable mappings" marke= r. > > > > I'm trying to solve 2 separate problems with this series: > > > > What happened to this patchkit? I was looking into how to efficiently > get larger pages for text transparently, and there doesn't seem > to be anything better than such a heuristic? I do feel that we need some controls over file folio sizes. It could also be implemented using an eBPF-based approach, such as [1]? [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20251026100159.6103-1-laoar.shao@gmail= .com/ Thanks Barry