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    Merge tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache · 49f8275c
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull memory folios from Matthew Wilcox:
     "Add memory folios, a new type to represent either order-0 pages or the
      head page of a compound page. This should be enough infrastructure to
      support filesystems converting from pages to folios.
    
      The point of all this churn is to allow filesystems and the page cache
      to manage memory in larger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. The original plan
      was to use compound pages like THP does, but I ran into problems with
      some functions expecting only a head page while others expect the
      precise page containing a particular byte.
    
      The folio type allows a function to declare that it's expecting only a
      head page. Almost incidentally, this allows us to remove various calls
      to VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) and compound_head().
    
      This converts just parts of the core MM and the page cache. For 5.17,
      we intend to convert various filesystems (XFS and AFS are ready; other
      filesystems may make it) and also convert more of the MM and page
      cache to folios. For 5.18, multi-page folios should be ready.
    
      The multi-page folios offer some improvement to some workloads. The
      80% win is real, but appears to be an artificial benchmark (postgres
      startup, which isn't a serious workload). Real workloads (eg building
      the kernel, running postgres in a steady state, etc) seem to benefit
      between 0-10%. I haven't heard of any performance losses as a result
      of this series. Nobody has done any serious performance tuning; I
      imagine that tweaking the readahead algorithm could provide some more
      interesting wins. There are also other places where we could choose to
      create large folios and currently do not, such as writes that are
      larger than PAGE_SIZE.
    
      I'd like to thank all my reviewers who've offered review/ack tags:
      Christoph Hellwig, David Howells, Jan Kara, Jeff Layton, Johannes
      Weiner, Kirill A. Shutemov, Michal Hocko, Mike Rapoport, Vlastimil
      Babka, William Kucharski, Yu Zhao and Zi Yan.
    
      I'd also like to thank those who gave feedback I incorporated but
      haven't offered up review tags for this part of the series: Nick
      Piggin, Mel Gorman, Ming Lei, Darrick Wong, Ted Ts'o, John Hubbard,
      Hugh Dickins, and probably a few others who I forget"
    
    * tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (90 commits)
      mm/writeback: Add folio_write_one
      mm/filemap: Add FGP_STABLE
      mm/filemap: Add filemap_get_folio
      mm/filemap: Convert mapping_get_entry to return a folio
      mm/filemap: Add filemap_add_folio()
      mm/filemap: Add filemap_alloc_folio
      mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions
      mm/lru: Add folio_add_lru()
      mm/lru: Convert __pagevec_lru_add_fn to take a folio
      mm: Add folio_evictable()
      mm/workingset: Convert workingset_refault() to take a folio
      mm/filemap: Add readahead_folio()
      mm/filemap: Add folio_mkwrite_check_truncate()
      mm/filemap: Add i_blocks_per_folio()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_cancel_dirty()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_account_cleaned()
      mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()
      ...
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    Merge tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull memory folios from Matthew Wilcox:
     "Add memory folios, a new type to represent either order-0 pages or the
      head page of a compound page. This should be enough infrastructure to
      support filesystems converting from pages to folios.
    
      The point of all this churn is to allow filesystems and the page cache
      to manage memory in larger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. The original plan
      was to use compound pages like THP does, but I ran into problems with
      some functions expecting only a head page while others expect the
      precise page containing a particular byte.
    
      The folio type allows a function to declare that it's expecting only a
      head page. Almost incidentally, this allows us to remove various calls
      to VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) and compound_head().
    
      This converts just parts of the core MM and the page cache. For 5.17,
      we intend to convert various filesystems (XFS and AFS are ready; other
      filesystems may make it) and also convert more of the MM and page
      cache to folios. For 5.18, multi-page folios should be ready.
    
      The multi-page folios offer some improvement to some workloads. The
      80% win is real, but appears to be an artificial benchmark (postgres
      startup, which isn't a serious workload). Real workloads (eg building
      the kernel, running postgres in a steady state, etc) seem to benefit
      between 0-10%. I haven't heard of any performance losses as a result
      of this series. Nobody has done any serious performance tuning; I
      imagine that tweaking the readahead algorithm could provide some more
      interesting wins. There are also other places where we could choose to
      create large folios and currently do not, such as writes that are
      larger than PAGE_SIZE.
    
      I'd like to thank all my reviewers who've offered review/ack tags:
      Christoph Hellwig, David Howells, Jan Kara, Jeff Layton, Johannes
      Weiner, Kirill A. Shutemov, Michal Hocko, Mike Rapoport, Vlastimil
      Babka, William Kucharski, Yu Zhao and Zi Yan.
    
      I'd also like to thank those who gave feedback I incorporated but
      haven't offered up review tags for this part of the series: Nick
      Piggin, Mel Gorman, Ming Lei, Darrick Wong, Ted Ts'o, John Hubbard,
      Hugh Dickins, and probably a few others who I forget"
    
    * tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (90 commits)
      mm/writeback: Add folio_write_one
      mm/filemap: Add FGP_STABLE
      mm/filemap: Add filemap_get_folio
      mm/filemap: Convert mapping_get_entry to return a folio
      mm/filemap: Add filemap_add_folio()
      mm/filemap: Add filemap_alloc_folio
      mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions
      mm/lru: Add folio_add_lru()
      mm/lru: Convert __pagevec_lru_add_fn to take a folio
      mm: Add folio_evictable()
      mm/workingset: Convert workingset_refault() to take a folio
      mm/filemap: Add readahead_folio()
      mm/filemap: Add folio_mkwrite_check_truncate()
      mm/filemap: Add i_blocks_per_folio()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_cancel_dirty()
      mm/writeback: Add folio_account_cleaned()
      mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()
      ...