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From: "Lameter, Christopher" <cl@os.amperecomputing.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix draining remote pageset
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:06:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94b0e0c6-a626-46a1-e746-a336d20cdc08@os.amperecomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZORtHmDeDCMcCb7Q@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Yes, this doesn't really show any actual correctness problem so I do not
> think this is sufficient to change the code. You would need to show that
> the existing behavior is actively harmful.

Having some pages from a remote NUMA node stuck in a pcp somewhere is 
making that memory unusable. It is usually rate that these remote pages 
are needed again and so they may remain there for a long time if the 
situation is right.

And he is right that the intended behavior of freeing the remote pages 
has been disabled by the patch.

So I think there is sufficient rationale to apply these fixes.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-25 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-11  9:08 Huang Ying
2023-08-11  9:35 ` Michal Hocko
2023-08-14  1:59   ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-16  6:49     ` Michal Hocko
2023-08-16  7:08       ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-16 20:23         ` Lameter, Christopher
2023-08-21  7:55         ` Michal Hocko
2023-08-21  8:30           ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-21  9:27             ` Michal Hocko
2023-08-21 22:31               ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-22  8:09                 ` Michal Hocko
2023-08-25 17:06                   ` Lameter, Christopher [this message]
2023-08-29  6:08                     ` Huang, Ying
2023-08-29 18:05                       ` Lameter, Christopher
2023-09-05 16:52                     ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-09-06  4:17                       ` Huang, Ying

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