From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 13:43:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjmF_MGe5sBDmQB1WGpr+QFWkqboHpL37JYB5WgnG8nMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1909041252230.94813@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:54 PM David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
> This series reverts those reverts and attempts to propose a more sane
> default allocation strategy specifically for hugepages. Andrea
> acknowledges this is likely to fix the swap storms that he originally
> reported that resulted in the patches that removed __GFP_THISNODE from
> hugepage allocations.
There's no way we can try this for 5.3 even if looks ok. This is
"let's try this during the 5.4 merge window" material, and see how it
works.
But I'd love affected people to test this all on their loads and post
numbers, so that we have actual numbers for this series when we do try
to merge it.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-04 19:54 David Rientjes
2019-09-04 19:54 ` [rfc 3/4] mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed David Rientjes
2019-09-05 9:00 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-05 11:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-05 20:53 ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-06 20:16 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-06 20:49 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-04 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-09-05 20:54 ` [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages David Rientjes
2019-09-07 19:51 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-07 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-08 1:50 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-08 12:47 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-08 20:45 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-09 8:37 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 20:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-05 21:06 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-09 19:30 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-25 7:08 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-26 19:03 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-27 7:48 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-28 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-30 11:28 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-01 5:43 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-01 8:37 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-18 14:15 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-23 11:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-24 18:59 ` David Rientjes
2019-10-29 14:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-29 15:15 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-29 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2019-10-29 21:45 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-29 23:25 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-05 13:02 ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-06 1:01 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-06 7:35 ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-06 21:32 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-13 11:20 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-25 0:10 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-25 11:47 ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-25 20:38 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-25 21:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-01 13:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-01 20:31 ` David Rientjes
2019-10-01 21:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-02 10:34 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-02 22:32 ` David Rientjes
2019-10-03 8:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-04 12:18 ` Michal Hocko
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