Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] 9p: Add a migrate_folio method

2025-04-05 Thread David Howells
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: > The migration code used to be able to migrate dirty 9p folios by writing > them back using writepage. When the writepage method was removed, > we neglected to add a migrate_folio method, which means that dirty 9p > folios have been unmovable ever since. This red

Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] 9p: Add a migrate_folio method

2025-04-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:46:17PM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote: > Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote on Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 03:59:55PM +0100: > > The migration code used to be able to migrate dirty 9p folios by writing > > them back using writepage. When the writepage method was removed, > > we ne

Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] 9p: Add a migrate_folio method

2025-04-02 Thread Dominique Martinet
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote on Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 03:59:55PM +0100: > The migration code used to be able to migrate dirty 9p folios by writing > them back using writepage. When the writepage method was removed, > we neglected to add a migrate_folio method, which means that dirty 9p > folios ha

[PATCH v2 1/9] 9p: Add a migrate_folio method

2025-04-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
The migration code used to be able to migrate dirty 9p folios by writing them back using writepage. When the writepage method was removed, we neglected to add a migrate_folio method, which means that dirty 9p folios have been unmovable ever since. This reduced our success at defragmenting memory