From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com,
mingo@kernel.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_owner: fix for deferred struct page init
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 19:43:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190107184309.GM31793@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa135cd8-32e5-86f7-14ee-30685bca91b5@lca.pw>
On Fri 04-01-19 15:18:08, Qian Cai wrote:
[...]
> Though, I can't see any really benefit of this approach apart from "beautify"
This is not about beautifying! This is about making the code long term
maintainable. As you can see it is just too easy to break it with the
current scheme. And that is bad especially when the code is broken
because of an optimization.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-07 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1545172285.18411.26.camel@lca.pw>
2018-12-19 1:57 ` [PATCH] mm: skip checking poison pattern for page_to_nid() Qian Cai
2018-12-19 10:20 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-19 12:46 ` Qian Cai
2018-12-20 6:03 ` [PATCH] mm/page_owner: fix for deferred struct page init Qian Cai
2018-12-20 9:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-20 18:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Qian Cai
2018-12-20 20:31 ` [PATCH v3] " Qian Cai
2018-12-20 21:00 ` William Kucharski
2018-12-20 21:04 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-03 11:51 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-03 16:38 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-03 16:59 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-03 17:38 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-03 19:07 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-03 19:53 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-03 20:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-03 22:22 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-04 13:09 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-04 15:01 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-04 15:17 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-04 15:25 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-04 15:32 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-04 20:18 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-07 18:43 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-01-08 1:53 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-08 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-08 13:19 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-08 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2019-01-08 22:13 ` Qian Cai
2019-01-08 22:40 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-09 7:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Michal Hocko
2019-01-15 20:28 ` [PATCH] Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init" Qian Cai
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