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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] mm, thp: khugepaged can't allocate on requested node when confined to a cpuset
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:59:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141021105934.GV23531@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54385635.5020709@suse.cz>

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:57:09PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Hm I haven't seen the code yet, but is perhaps the NUMA scanning working
> similarly enough that a single scanner could handle both the NUMA and THP
> bits to save time?

IIRC the THP thing doesn't need the fault thing, which makes it an
entirely different beast. Then again, we do walk the actual page-tables
through change_protection, but changing that means we have to duplicate
all that code, then again, maybe the current THP stuff already carries
something like that.


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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] mm, thp: khugepaged can't allocate on requested node when confined to a cpuset
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:59:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141021105934.GV23531@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54385635.5020709@suse.cz>

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:57:09PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Hm I haven't seen the code yet, but is perhaps the NUMA scanning working
> similarly enough that a single scanner could handle both the NUMA and THP
> bits to save time?

IIRC the THP thing doesn't need the fault thing, which makes it an
entirely different beast. Then again, we do walk the actual page-tables
through change_protection, but changing that means we have to duplicate
all that code, then again, maybe the current THP stuff already carries
something like that.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-08 19:10 [BUG] mm, thp: khugepaged can't allocate on requested node when confined to a cpuset Alex Thorlton
2014-10-08 19:10 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-10  9:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-10  9:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-10 18:56   ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-10 18:56     ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-10 21:57     ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-10-10 21:57       ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-10-14 14:58       ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-14 14:58         ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-21 10:59       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-10-21 10:59         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-21 10:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-21 10:55       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-21 16:25       ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-21 16:25         ` Alex Thorlton
2014-10-14 11:48 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-14 11:48   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-14 14:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-14 14:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-14 15:31     ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-14 15:31       ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-14 17:38     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-14 17:38       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-21 10:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-21 10:17         ` Peter Zijlstra

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