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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] hugetlb: only set HPageMigratable for migratable hstates
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:52:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210128055221.GA3166@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2196d93e-f573-7163-183e-0ad2cec7555e@oracle.com>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 03:36:41PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Yes, this patch is somewhat optional.  It should be a minor improvement
> in cases where we are dealing with hpages in a non-migratable hstate.
> Although, I do not believe this is the common case.
> 
> The real reason for even looking into this was a comment by Oscar.  With
> the name change to HPageMigratable, it implies that the page is migratable.
> However, this is not the case if the page's hstate does not support migration.
> So, if we check the hstate when setting the flag we can eliminate those
> cases where the page is certainly not migratable.
> 
> I don't really love this patch.  It has minimal functional value.
> 
> Oscar, what do you think about dropping this?

Yeah, I remember this topic arose during a discussion of patch#2 in the
early versions, about whether the renaming to HPageMigratable made
sense.

Back then I thought that we could have this in one place at fault-path [1],
which should have made this prettier, but it is not the case.
True is that the optimization is little, so I am fine with dropping this
patch.

unmap_and_move_huge_page() fences off pages belonging to non-migratable
hstates.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/20210120013049.311822-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com/#23914033

Thanks

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 19:52 [PATCH v3 0/5] create hugetlb flags to consolidate state Mike Kravetz
2021-01-22 19:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] hugetlb: use page.private for hugetlb specific page flags Mike Kravetz
2021-01-26  8:17   ` Oscar Salvador
2021-01-27 10:20   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-27 23:01     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-27 10:26   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-22 19:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] hugetlb: convert page_huge_active() HPageMigratable flag Mike Kravetz
2021-01-27 10:25   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-27 23:27     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-22 19:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] hugetlb: only set HPageMigratable for migratable hstates Mike Kravetz
2021-01-26  8:20   ` Oscar Salvador
2021-01-27 10:35   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-27 23:36     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-28  5:52       ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2021-01-28 21:37         ` Andrew Morton
2021-01-28 22:00           ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-28 22:15             ` Andrew Morton
2021-01-29  9:09               ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-29 18:46               ` Mike Kravetz
2021-02-01 11:49                 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04  1:11                   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-22 19:52 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] hugetlb: convert PageHugeTemporary() to HPageTemporary flag Mike Kravetz
2021-01-23  3:15   ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-27 10:39   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-22 19:52 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] hugetlb: convert PageHugeFreed to HPageFreed flag Mike Kravetz
2021-01-27 10:41   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-27 23:37     ` Mike Kravetz

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