From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: john.hubbard@gmail.com
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"John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] put_user_pages(): miscellaneous call sites
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:05:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190802080554.GD2332@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190802021653.4882-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 07:16:19PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> This is part a tree-wide conversion, as described in commit fc1d8e7cca2d
> ("mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions"). That commit
> has an extensive description of the problem and the planned steps to
> solve it, but the highlites are:
That is one horridly mangled Changelog there :-/ It looks like it's
partially duplicated.
Anyway; no objections to any of that, but I just wanted to mention that
there are other problems with long term pinning that haven't been
mentioned, notably they inhibit compaction.
A long time ago I proposed an interface to mark pages as pinned, such
that we could run compaction before we actually did the pinning.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-02 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-02 2:16 [PATCH 00/34] put_user_pages(): miscellaneous call sites john.hubbard
2019-08-02 2:16 ` [PATCH 01/34] mm/gup: add make_dirty arg to put_user_pages_dirty_lock() john.hubbard
2019-08-02 2:16 ` [PATCH 02/34] net/rds: convert put_page() to put_user_page*() john.hubbard
2019-08-02 2:39 ` [PATCH 00/34] put_user_pages(): miscellaneous call sites John Hubbard
2019-08-02 8:05 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-08-02 19:33 ` John Hubbard
2019-08-02 2:19 john.hubbard
2019-08-02 9:12 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-02 12:41 ` Jan Kara
2019-08-02 14:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-02 14:52 ` Jan Kara
2019-08-02 19:14 ` John Hubbard
2019-08-07 8:37 ` Jan Kara
2019-08-07 8:46 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 2:36 ` Ira Weiny
2019-08-08 3:46 ` John Hubbard
2019-08-08 16:25 ` Weiny, Ira
2019-08-08 18:18 ` John Hubbard
2019-08-09 8:34 ` Jan Kara
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