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

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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 have been unmovable ever since.  This reduced our success at
> defragmenting memory on machines which use 9p heavily.
> 
> Fixes: 80105ed2fd27 (9p: Use netfslib read/write_iter)
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: v9fs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Given I'm not in Cc of the whole series I'm lacking context but I assume
that means I'm not supposed to take this in.

I won't pretend I understand folios anyway, but commit messages makes
sense to me:
Acked-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-- 
Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus




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