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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>,
	"zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ke.wang@unisoc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5] mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:56:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230612135642.24cef34a2925cdde257c1a50@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b72118b0-47dc-86c4-15fb-fb5ea72bcf30@redhat.com>

On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:01:20 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> ...
>
> >>
> >> If it's a performance improvement, it would be good to show that it is
> >> an actual improvement worth the churn ...
> > Sorry for the confusion. As for the OOM issue, the previous
> > commit(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1683782550-25799-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com)
> > helps to decrease the fail rate from 12/20 to 2/20, which it turn to
> > be 0 when applying this patch.
> 
> Thanks! Can we make that clearer in the patch description? I'm 
> struggling a bit my self to find the right words.
> 
> Something like
> 
> "This change further decreases the chance for wrong OOMs in the presence 
> of a lot of CMA memory."
> 

Great, I added that.

> 
> In any case
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> 

And I'll move this patch into mm-stable.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-12 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-31  2:51 zhaoyang.huang
2023-06-09 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2023-06-10  1:51   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-06-12  9:29   ` David Hildenbrand
2023-06-12  9:35     ` Zhaoyang Huang
2023-06-12 10:01       ` David Hildenbrand
2023-06-12 20:56         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-08-13  9:49 ` Breno Leitao

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