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Instead of splitting the large folio uniformly during truncation, try to use buddy allocator like folio_split() at the start and the end of a truncation range to minimize the number of resulting folios if it is supported. try_folio_split() is introduced to use folio_split() if supported and it falls back to uniform split otherwise. For example, to truncate a order-4 folio [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 15] between [3, 10] (inclusive), folio_split() splits the folio at 3 to [0,1], [2], [3], [4..7], [8..15] and [3], [4..7] can be dropped and [8..15] is kept with zeros in [8..10], then another folio_split() is done at 10, so [8..10] can be dropped. One possible optimization is to make folio_split() to split a folio based on a given range, like [3..10] above. But that complicates folio_split(), so it will be investigated when necessary. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226210032.2044041-8-ziy@nvidia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250307174001.242794-8-ziy@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.