Re: [PATCH 0/5] add STATIC_PMD_ZERO_PAGE config option

From: Pankaj Raghav
Date: Mon Jun 16 2025 - 05:01:16 EST



On 6/16/25 07:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Just curious: why doesn't this series get rid of the iomap zero_page,
> which would be really low hanging fruit?
>

I did the conversion in my first RFC series [1]. But the implementation and API for the zero
page was still under heavy discussion. So I decided to focus on that instead and leave the
conversion for later as I mentioned in the cover letter. I included blkdev_issue_zero_pages() as it
is a more straight forward conversion.

--
Pankaj


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250516101054.676046-4-p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx/