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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:30:00 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large
 anon folios
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 03:31:08PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> In preparation for the introduction of large folios for anonymous
> memory, we would like to be able to split them when they have unmapped
> subpages, in order to free those unused pages under memory pressure. So
> remove the artificial requirement that the large folio needed to be at
> least PMD-sized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

>  		 */
> -		if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
> +		if (folio_test_large(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
>  			if (!compound || nr < nr_pmdmapped)
>  				deferred_split_folio(folio);

I wonder if it's worth introducing a folio_test_deferred_split() (better
naming appreciated ...) to allow us to allocate order-1 folios and not
do horrible things.  Maybe it's not worth supporting order-1 folios;
we're always better off going to order-2 immediately.  Just thinking.