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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>, Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	shakeel.butt@linux.dev, jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com,
	josef@toxicpanda.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] mm/memory-hotplug: add finite retries in offline_pages() if migration fails
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 19:56:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04020bb7-5567-4b91-a424-62c46f136e2a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241108173309.71619-1-sj@kernel.org>

On 08.11.24 18:33, SeongJae Park wrote:
> + David Hildenbrand
> 
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 15:56:12 -0800 Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> In offline_pages(), do_migrate_range() may potentially retry forever if
>> the migration fails. Add a return value for do_migrate_range(), and
>> allow offline_page() to try migrating pages 5 times before erroring
>> out, similar to how migration failures in __alloc_contig_migrate_range()
>> is handled.
> 
> I'm curious if this could cause unexpected behavioral differences to memory
> hotplugging users, and how '5' is chosen.  Could you please enlighten me?
> 

I'm wondering how much more often I'll have to nack such a patch. :)

On a related note: MAINTAINERS file exists for a reason.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-08 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-07 23:56 [PATCH v4 0/6] fuse: remove temp page copies in writeback Joanne Koong
2024-11-07 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] mm: add AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_BLOCK mapping flag Joanne Koong
2024-11-09  0:10   ` Shakeel Butt
2024-11-11 21:11     ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-15 19:33       ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-15 20:17         ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-07 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] mm: skip reclaiming folios in legacy memcg writeback contexts that may block Joanne Koong
2024-11-09  0:16   ` Shakeel Butt
2024-11-07 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] fs/writeback: in wait_sb_inodes(), skip wait for AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_BLOCK mappings Joanne Koong
2024-11-07 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] mm/memory-hotplug: add finite retries in offline_pages() if migration fails Joanne Koong
2024-11-08 17:33   ` SeongJae Park
2024-11-08 18:56     ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-11-08 19:00       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-08 21:27         ` Shakeel Butt
2024-11-08 21:42           ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-08 22:16             ` Shakeel Butt
2024-11-08 22:20               ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-08 21:59     ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-07 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] mm/migrate: skip migrating folios under writeback with AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_BLOCK mappings Joanne Koong
2024-11-07 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree Joanne Koong
2024-11-08  8:48   ` Jingbo Xu
2024-11-08 22:33     ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-11  8:32   ` Jingbo Xu
2024-11-11 21:30     ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-12  2:31       ` Jingbo Xu
2024-11-13 19:11         ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-12  9:25   ` Jingbo Xu
2024-11-14  0:39     ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-14  1:46       ` Jingbo Xu
2024-11-14 18:19         ` Joanne Koong
2024-11-15  2:18           ` Jingbo Xu
2024-11-15 18:29             ` Joanne Koong

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