From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
aaron.lu@intel.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
osalvador@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/page_alloc: Only call pgdat_set_deferred_range when the system boots
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:01:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180719150114.GC10988@techadventures.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGM2reZ-+njLtZSnNpry11frg85KmMk4WWxGdaqk1o4BUJVO1w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:27:44AM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:03 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > I am not really sure. I am not a big fan of SYSTEM_BOOTING global
> > thingy so I would rather not spread its usage.
>
> I agree, I do not think this patch is necessary. Calling
> pgdat_set_deferred_range() does not hurt in hotplug context, and it is
> cheap too. SYSTEM_BOOTING sometimes useful, but it is better to use it
> only where necessary, where without this "if" we will encounter some
> bugs.
Ok, let us drop it then ;-).
Thanks
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 13:27 [PATCH v2 0/5] Refactor free_area_init_node/free_area_init_core osalvador
2018-07-19 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/page_alloc: Move ifdefery out of free_area_init_core osalvador
2018-07-19 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: access zone->node via zone_to_nid() and zone_set_nid() osalvador
2018-07-19 13:40 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 13:44 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-19 13:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/page_alloc: Optimize free_area_init_core osalvador
2018-07-19 13:44 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 14:03 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-19 15:15 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 20:52 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-20 10:03 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-23 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-23 11:42 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-23 8:30 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/page_alloc: Inline function to handle CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT osalvador
2018-07-19 13:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/page_alloc: Only call pgdat_set_deferred_range when the system boots osalvador
2018-07-19 13:46 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 13:58 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-19 14:03 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19 14:27 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-19 15:01 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
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