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Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:23:46 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1] mm: add a total mapcount for large folios
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Hi, David,

Some pure questions below..

On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 10:32:56AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's track the total mapcount for all large folios in the first subpage.
> 
> The total mapcount is what we actually want to know in folio_mapcount()
> and it is also sufficient for implementing folio_mapped(). This also
> gets rid of any "raceiness" concerns as expressed in
> folio_total_mapcount().

Any more information for that "raciness" described here?

> 
> With sub-PMD THP becoming more important and things looking promising
> that we will soon get support for such anon THP, we want to avoid looping
> over all pages of a folio just to calculate the total mapcount. Further,
> we may soon want to use the total mapcount in other context more
> frequently, so prepare for reading it efficiently and atomically.

Any (perhaps existing) discussion on reduced loops vs added atomic
field/ops?

I had a feeling that there's some discussion behind the proposal of this
patch, if that's the case it'll be great to attach the link in the commit
log.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu