Re: [PATCH] [RFC] CMA: clear buffer-head lru before page migration

[Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>]

On Mon, Jul 14 2014, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 06:46:31PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> This seems reasonable, except I think [invalidate_bh_lrus()] should
>> go after start_isolate_page_range call because otherwise there's no
>> guarantee that someone won't grab those pages back.
>> 
>> Also to avoid the #ifdef perhaps we want this as well:
>
> I think that we just want to remove ifdef CONFIG_CMA on above code
> snippet, because invalidate_bh_lrus() would also help user of
> alloc_contig_range() with MIGRATE_MOVABLE.

Sounds good to me.

>> The purpose is to get free non-buddy pages (so pages on PCP lists for
>> instance) back onto the buddy list.  It's safe to move those calls above
>> the call to __alloc_contig_migrate_range, but I don't think it will
>> change anything (except of course the fact that if migration fails,
>> we'll do the draining for nothing).

> At a glance, we don't need that drain_all_pages(), because
> drain_all_pages() is also called by set_migratetype_isolate() after
> changing migratetype.

You are likely correct.

> And, it is better to move up lru_add_drain_all() to ahead of
> __alloc_contig_migrate_range(), because some pages could be skipped
> to migrate due to this lru page caching mechanism.

Again, sounds good to me.

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