From: Huaisheng HS1 Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"mhocko@suse.com" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"vbabka@suse.cz" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"mgorman@techsingularity.net" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
"alexander.levin@verizon.com" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>,
"colyli@suse.de" <colyli@suse.de>,
NingTing Cheng <chengnt@lenovo.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [External] Re: [PATCH v1] include/linux/gfp.h: getting rid of GFP_ZONE_TABLE/BAD
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 12:12:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HK2PR03MB1684A881A868E9676C7E55E692920@HK2PR03MB1684.apcprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180512142249.GA24215@bombadil.infradead.org>
> From: Matthew Wilcox [mailto:willy@infradead.org]
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2018 10:23 PM>
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:35:00AM +0000, Huaisheng HS1 Ye wrote:
> > > The point of this exercise is to actually encode the zone number in
> > > the bottom bits of the GFP flags instead of something which has to be
> > > interpreted into a zone number. When somebody sets __GFP_MOVABLE, they
> > > should also be setting ZONE_MOVABLE:
> > >
> > > -#define __GFP_MOVABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_MOVABLE) /* ZONE_MOVABLE allowed
> */
> > > +#define __GFP_MOVABLE ((__force gfp_t)(___GFP_MOVABLE | (ZONE_MOVABLE ^
> ZONE_NORMAL)))
> > >
> > I am afraid we couldn't do that, because __GFP_MOVABLE would be used potentially
> with other __GFPs like __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32.
>
> That's not a combination that makes much sense. I know it's permitted today
> (and it has the effect of being a no-op), but when you think about it, it
> doesn't actually make any sense.
Yes, you are right.
After checking almost all references of __GFP_MOVABLE and other __GFP_* flags, perhaps I was far to get excessive pursuit of logical correctness.
For those nonsense combinations, I should ignore them.
Current GFP_ZONE_TABLE can ensure all logical correctness. That makes me want to pursue same effect.
Next, I will revise the patch according to your advice, then try to get overall testing result as far as possible.
There are many combinations because of a lot of conditions in file system and drivers. Hope I could test all things related to the lower 4 bits of gfp.
Sincerely,
Huaisheng Ye
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[not found] <1525968625-40825-1-git-send-email-yehs1@lenovo.com>
2018-05-10 16:30 ` [PATCH v1] include/linux/gfp.h: getting rid of GFP_ZONE_TABLE/BAD Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-11 3:24 ` [External] " Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-11 13:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-12 11:35 ` Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-12 14:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-16 12:12 ` Huaisheng HS1 Ye [this message]
2018-05-18 3:03 ` Huaisheng HS1 Ye
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