From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@suse.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:29 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1811231211200.1964@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181122090547.GD18011@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> If you want some update to the comment in this function or to the
> changelog, I am open of course. Right now I have
> + * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
> + * reference may adversely influence page migration.
> as suggested by William.
I ought to care, since I challenged the significance of this aspect
in the first place, but find I don't care enough - I much prefer the
patch to the comments on and in it, but have not devised any wording
that I'd prefer to see instead - sorry.
Hugh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-23 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-20 13:43 [RFC PATCH 0/3] few memory offlining enhancements Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 13:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-20 14:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-20 14:33 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-20 14:51 ` osalvador
2018-11-20 15:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 13:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-20 14:34 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-20 15:13 ` osalvador
2018-11-20 15:18 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 13:43 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-11-20 14:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-11-20 14:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-21 4:51 ` William Kucharski
2018-11-21 7:07 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 14:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-21 1:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2018-11-21 7:11 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-22 2:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2018-11-22 9:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 20:22 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
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