From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f69.google.com (mail-oi0-f69.google.com [209.85.218.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EF86B78FB for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:32:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-oi0-f69.google.com with SMTP id l191-v6so12615490oig.23 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 06:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.158.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g3-v6si3317572oia.21.2018.09.06.06.32.25 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Sep 2018 06:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098416.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w86DURwU070306 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:32:25 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com (e35.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.153]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2mb4suh90b-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:32:24 -0400 Received: from localhost by e35.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:32:24 -0600 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 1/4] mm: Export alloc_migrate_huge_page References: <20180906054342.25094-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> <20180906123111.GC26069@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180906123539.GV14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:02:16 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180906123539.GV14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <50682adc-5be9-1fac-fd84-abc6bbea7549@linux.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Alexey Kardashevskiy , mpe@ellerman.id.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org On 09/06/2018 06:05 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 06-09-18 14:31:11, Michal Hocko wrote: >> On Thu 06-09-18 11:13:39, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >>> We want to use this to support customized huge page migration. >> >> Please be much more specific. Ideally including the user. Btw. why do >> you want to skip the hugetlb pools? In other words alloc_huge_page_node* >> which are intended to an external use? > > Ups, I have now found http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180906054342.25094-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com > which ended up in a different email folder so I have missed it. It would > be much better to merge those two to make the user immediately obvious. > There is a good reason to keep newly added functions closer to their > users. > It is the same series. I will fold the patch 1 and 2. -aneesh