From: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Linux-MM <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>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:51:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29F15A96-D6EB-450E-B54B-A4CB460ED9B3@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181120141207.GK22247@dhcp22.suse.cz>
> On Nov 20, 2018, at 7:12 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> + /*
> + * Check the locked pages before taking a reference to not
> + * go in the way of migration.
> + */
Could you make this a tiny bit more explanative, something like:
+ /*
+ * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
+ * reference may adversely influence page migration.
+ */
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-21 4:51 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 [this message]
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
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