From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm1-f71.google.com (mail-wm1-f71.google.com [209.85.128.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F696B05D1 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2018 05:33:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm1-f71.google.com with SMTP id t22-v6so412221wmt.9 for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from EUR03-AM5-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr30079.outbound.protection.outlook.com. [40.107.3.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q193-v6si3177312wmg.125.2018.11.08.02.33.54 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:33:54 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Capper Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] mm/hugetlb: Distinguish between migratability and movability Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:33:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20181108103340.ajeg566spidprzzk@capper-debian.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1540299721-26484-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <1540299721-26484-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <1540299721-26484-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3C4C4AF369624046874B8669A50CA08E@eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Anshuman Khandual Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Suzuki Poulose , Punit Agrawal , Will Deacon , Steven Price , Catalin Marinas , "mhocko@kernel.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mike.kravetz@oracle.com" , "n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com" , nd Hi Anshuman, On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 06:31:57PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > During huge page allocation it's migratability is checked to determine if > it should be placed under movable zones with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. But th= e > movability aspect of the huge page could depend on other factors than jus= t > migratability. Movability in itself is a distinct property which should n= ot > be tied with migratability alone. >=20 > This differentiates these two and implements an enhanced movability check > which also considers huge page size to determine if it is feasible to be > placed under a movable zone. At present it just checks for gigantic pages > but going forward it can incorporate other enhanced checks. >=20 > Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi > Suggested-by: Michal Hocko > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual FWIW: Reviewed-by: Steve Capper