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From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: migrate: do not migrate HugeTLB page whose refcount is one
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 19:24:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZfGtULi=E5pNoLciaedGfNpSdopzyOzFhnzALf+nCciFRUPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210107111642.GF13207@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:16 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu 07-01-21 10:52:21, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:13 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed 06-01-21 16:47:34, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > > If the refcount is one when it is migrated, it means that the page
> > > > was freed from under us. So we are done and do not need to migrate.
> > >
> > > Is this common enough that it would warrant the explicit check for each
> > > migration?
> >
> > Are you worried about the overhead caused by the check? Thanks.
>
> I am not as worried as I would like to see some actual justification for
> this optimization.

OK. The HugeTLB page can be freed after it was isolated but before
being migrated. Right? If we catch this case, it is an optimization.
I do this just like unmap_and_move() does for a base page.

> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-07 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06  8:47 [PATCH v2 0/6] Fix some bugs about HugeTLB code Muchun Song
2021-01-06  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: migrate: do not migrate HugeTLB page whose refcount is one Muchun Song
2021-01-06 16:13   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07  2:52     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-07 11:16       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07 11:24         ` Muchun Song [this message]
2021-01-07 11:48           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-06  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: hugetlbfs: fix cannot migrate the fallocated HugeTLB page Muchun Song
2021-01-06 16:35   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-06 19:30     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-06 20:02       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-06 21:07         ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-07  8:36           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07  2:58     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-06  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page Muchun Song
2021-01-06 16:56   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-06 20:58     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-07  3:08       ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-07  8:40       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-08  0:52         ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-08  8:28           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07  5:39     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-07  8:41       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07  8:53         ` Muchun Song
2021-01-07 11:18           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07 11:38             ` Muchun Song
2021-01-07 12:38               ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07 12:59                 ` Muchun Song
2021-01-07 14:11                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07 15:11                     ` Muchun Song
2021-01-08  1:06                       ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-08  2:38                         ` Muchun Song
2021-01-08  8:43                       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-08  9:01                         ` Muchun Song
2021-01-08  9:31                           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-08 10:08                             ` Muchun Song
2021-01-08 11:44                               ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-08 11:52                                 ` Muchun Song
2021-01-08 12:04                                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-08 12:24                                     ` Muchun Song
2021-01-06  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: hugetlb: add return -EAGAIN for dissolve_free_huge_page Muchun Song
2021-01-06 17:07   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07  3:11     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-07  8:39       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-07  9:01         ` Muchun Song
2021-01-07 11:22           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-06  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between isolating and freeing page Muchun Song
2021-01-06 17:10   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-06  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: hugetlb: remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE from page_huge_active Muchun Song
2021-01-06 17:16   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-08 22:24   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-01-09  4:07     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-07  9:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Fix some bugs about HugeTLB code David Hildenbrand
2021-01-07  9:40   ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-01-07 10:10     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-07 10:16       ` Muchun Song

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