Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] (again) THP for file systems

From: William Kucharski
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 05:56:15 EST




> On Feb 13, 2019, at 4:59 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I believe the direction is clear. It needs people to do the work.
> We're critically short of reviewers. I got precious little review of
> the original XArray work, which made Andrew nervous and delayed its
> integration. Now I'm getting little review of the followup patches
> to lay the groundwork for filesystems to support larger page sizes.
> I have very little patience for this situation.

I'll be happy to dive in and look at the changes from an mm point of view,
but I don't feel qualified to comment on all the file system
considerations.

Perhaps if someone from the fs side would volunteer; I know well how
frustrating it can be to be trapped in code review suspended animation.