[$] Fleshing out memory descriptors

Date:
Mon, 27 May 2024 13:39:04 +0000

Description:
One of the long-term goals of the folio conversion in the kernel's memory-management subsystem is the replacement of the page structure, which describes a page of physical memory, with an eight-byte
"memory descriptor". This change would reduce the overhead of tracking physical memory, increase type safety, and make memory management more flexible. Thus far, though, details on what the memory-descriptor future
will look like have been relatively scarce. At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit , Matthew Wilcox led a
discussion to try to fill in the picture somewhat.

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