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From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/20] mm, hugetlb: fix subpool accounting handling
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:38:12PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello, Aneesh.
> >
> > First of all, thank you for review!
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:58:20PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > If we alloc hugepage with avoid_reserve, we don't dequeue reserved one.
> >> > So, we should check subpool counter when avoid_reserve.
> >> > This patch implement it.
> >> 
> >> Can you explain this better ? ie, if we don't have a reservation in the
> >> area chg != 0. So why look at avoid_reserve. 
> >
> > We don't consider avoid_reserve when chg != 0.
> > Look at following code.
> >
> > +       if (chg || avoid_reserve)
> > +               if (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1))
> >
> > It means that if chg != 0, we skip to check avoid_reserve.
> 
> when whould be avoid_reserve == 1 and chg == 0 ?

In this case, we should do hugepage_subpool_get_pages(), since we don't
get a reserved page due to avoid_reserve.

Thanks.

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