Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: add find_alloc_contig_pages() interface

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Sun 22-04-18 21:22:07, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 04/22/2018 05:09 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...
> > Also do we want to check other usual suspects? E.g. PageReserved? And
> > generally migrateable pages if page count > 0. Or do we want to leave
> > everything to the alloc_contig_range?
> 
> I think you proposed something like the above with limited checking at
> some time in the past.  In my testing, allocations were more likely to
> succeed if we did limited testing here and let alloc_contig_range take
> a shot at migration/allocation.  There really are two ways to approach
> this, do as much checking up front or let it be handled by alloc_contig_range.

OK, it would be great to have a comment mentioning that. The discrepancy
will just hit eyes 

[...]
> Unless I am missing something, calls to alloc_contig range need to have
> a size that is a multiple of page block.  This is because isolation needs
> to take place at a page block level.  We can easily 'round up' and release
> excess pages.

I am not sure but can we simply leave a part of the page block behind? I
mean it might have a misleading migrate type but that shouldn't matter
much, no?

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs