Re: [PATCH] block: Remove special-casing of compound pages

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:41:00 +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:

The special casing was originally added in pre-git history; reproducing the commit log here:

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commit a318a92567d77 Author: Andrew Morton akpm@osdl.org Date: Sun Sep 21 01:42:22 2003 -0700

[PATCH] Speed up direct-io hugetlbpage handling

This patch short-circuits all the direct-io page dirtying logic for
higher-order pages.  Without this, we pointlessly bounce BIOs up to
keventd all the time.

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Applied, thanks!

[1/1] block: Remove special-casing of compound pages commit: 1b151e2435fc3a9b10c8946c6aebe9f3e1938c55

Best regards,