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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: osalvador@suse.de
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	dan.j.williams@gmail.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, owner-linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC Get rid of shrink code - memory-hotplug]
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:12:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181205191244.GV1286@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39aa34058fc9641346456463afc2082d@suse.de>

[Cc Vlastimil]

On Tue 04-12-18 13:43:31, osalvador@suse.de wrote:
> On 2018-12-04 12:31, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>  > If I am not wrong, zone_contiguous is a pure mean for performance
> > improvement, right? So leaving zone_contiguous unset is always save. I
> > always disliked the whole clear/set_zone_contiguous thingy. I wonder if
> > we can find a different way to boost performance there (in the general
> > case). Or is this (zone_contiguous) even worth keeping around at all for
> > now? (do we have performance numbers?)
> 
> It looks like it was introduced by 7cf91a98e607
> ("mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous").
> 
> The improve numbers are in the commit.
> So I would say that we need to keep it around.

Is that still the case though?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-04  9:26 [RFC Get rid of shrink code - memory-hotplug] osalvador
2018-12-04 11:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-04 12:43   ` osalvador
2018-12-05 19:12     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-12-07  9:54       ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-12-07 10:32         ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 10:35           ` osalvador
2018-12-10 13:53             ` osalvador
2018-12-10 15:02               ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-10 17:16               ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-12  8:44                 ` osalvador
2018-12-05 19:07 ` Michal Hocko

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