Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages (except order-1).

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 17:11:10 EST


On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 04:55:18PM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Order-1 folio is not supported because _deferred_list, which is used by
> partially mapped folios, is stored in subpage 2 and an order-1 folio only
> has subpage 0 and 1.

The LBS patches has the patch from Matthew which enables and allowed us
to successfully test order 1. So this restriction could be dropped if
that gets merged.

Luis