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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:28:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6b47162-d975-afef-473f-dccb677fefe6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210315102740.GB25101@linux>

On 15.03.21 11:27, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:06:40AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>
>> BTW, I stumbled yesterday over
>>
>> alloc_contig_pages()->pfn_range_valid_contig():
>>
>> 	if (page_count(page) > 0)
>> 		rerurn false;
>> 	if (PageHuge(page))
>> 		return false;
>>
>> As used by memtrace and for gigantic pages. We can now
>>
>> a) Drop these check completely, as it's best-effort only and racy.
>> alloc_contig_pages()/alloc_contig_range() will handle it properly.
>>
>> b) Similarly, check for gigantic pages and/or movability/migratability.
>>
>> Dropping both checks might be the right thing to do: might significantly
>> increase allocation chances -- as we actually end up migrating busy pages
>> ...
> 
> Oh, sorry David, my mail client tricked me and I did not see this till now.
> 
> I will have a look, but I would like to collect some more feedback from all
> pieces before going any further and write a new version.
> Vlastimil patch#1 and patch#2 and he was ok with them, but let see what others
> think as well.

Planning on having a detailed look at the patches. Fairly busy though 
... :(

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-10 15:08 [PATCH v4 0/4] Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages Oscar Salvador
2021-03-10 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] mm,page_alloc: Bail out earlier on -ENOMEM in alloc_contig_migrate_range Oscar Salvador
2021-03-15 11:00   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-03-15 11:10   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-10 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm,compaction: Let isolate_migratepages_{range,block} return error codes Oscar Salvador
2021-03-15 11:03   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-03-10 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle free hugetlb pages Oscar Salvador
2021-03-10 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle in-use " Oscar Salvador
2021-03-15  9:06 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages David Hildenbrand
2021-03-15 10:27   ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-15 10:28     ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-03-17  9:43   ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-17  9:48     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-17 10:05       ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-17 10:06         ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-17 10:07         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-15 10:23 ` Oscar Salvador

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