From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hca@linux.ibm.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
vbabka@suse.cz, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, yuzhao@google.com
Subject: Re: + mm-mark-idle-page-tracking-as-broken.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:01:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMtx1RLd07/nHUeb@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YMtwN7nIvw/yl0gW@optiplex-fbsd>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:54:31AM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 06:29:19PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> > > > In discussion with other MM developers around how idle page tracking
> > > > should be fixed for transparent huge pages, several expressed the opinion
> > > > that it should be removed as it is inefficient at accomplishing the job
> > > > that it is supposed to, and we have better mechanisms (eg uffd) for
> > > > accomplishing the same goals these days.
> > >
> > > I didn't follow the aforementioned discussion, so it would be nice to
> > > have a little bit more detailed explanation on both points raised here
> > > (issues with THP and innefficiency). There are some Red Hat customers
> > > and partners that do rely on the feature, thus the interest. Thanks.
> >
> > It would be nice if you asked this on the original thread (which you're
> > cc'd on) instead of starting a new thread.
>
> Sorry about that, but for some weird reason only Andrew's email made its way
> into my inbox.
You should probably file a bug with your IT department then. There are
a dozen emails cc'ing you in this thread, some from people in your own
company:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210612000714.775825-1-willy@infradead.org/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-17 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 2:05 + mm-mark-idle-page-tracking-as-broken.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2021-06-16 22:29 ` Rafael Aquini
2021-06-17 15:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-17 15:54 ` Rafael Aquini
2021-06-17 16:01 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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