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The conversion to folios is intended to,
among other things, make it easy for the kernel to manage chunks of memory
in a number of different sizes. So far, though, that flexibility is not
being used in the kernel’s handling of anonymous pages. At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Yu Zhao and Yang Shi ran a session in
the memory-management track aimed at charting a path toward support for
anonymous pages in a variety of sizes.