From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Longlong Xia <xialonglong2025@163.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Longlong Xia <xialonglong@kylinos.cn>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>, Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>,
Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] mm/ksm: merge-path cleanups and folio conversion
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:48:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aql2wPergPKdfzU8@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915151236.5200-1-xialonglong2025@163.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 11:12:14PM +0800, Longlong Xia wrote:
> From: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@kylinos.cn>
>
> Clean up KSM's scan helpers, advisor naming and sysfs formatting, then
> pass folios through the merge path and update the related comments.
I'm not an expert in KSM, but it's not clear to me whether KSM should be
working in folios or pages. That's why I stopped where I did, in the
hope that somebody with expertise would step in. You have 17 commits
to Linux, one in KSM, so I'm not convinced you have relevant expertise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 15:12 Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 01/14] mm/ksm: constify ksm_next_page_ops Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 02/14] mm/ksm: rename advisor_ctx to ksm_advisor_ctx Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm/ksm: use the correct format specifier for max_page_sharing Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 04/14] mm/ksm: add advance_scan_mm_slot() helper Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 05/14] mm/ksm: make remove_stable_node_chain() return bool Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 06/14] mm/ksm: clear all slab cache pointers in ksm_slab_free() Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 07/14] mm/ksm: reuse the zero page pointer for merge tracing Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 08/14] mm/ksm: document the two remove_rmap_item_from_tree() calls Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 09/14] mm/ksm: move the no_vmas label out of the if block Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:12 ` [PATCH 10/14] mm/ksm: extract ksm_begin_full_scan() from scan_get_next_rmap_item() Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:23 ` [PATCH 11/14] mm/ksm: pass folios to replace_page() Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:23 ` [PATCH 12/14] mm/ksm: take the ksm folio in try_to_merge_one_page() Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:23 ` [PATCH 13/14] mm/ksm: take the ksm folio in try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 15:23 ` [PATCH 14/14] mm/ksm: update merge helper comments for folios Longlong Xia
2026-09-15 16:48 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2026-09-15 22:25 ` [PATCH 00/14] mm/ksm: merge-path cleanups and folio conversion Longlong Xia
2026-09-16 6:37 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-16 8:46 ` Longlong Xia
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