From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] mm, hugetlb: allow hugepage allocations to excessively reclaim
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:02:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910041058330.16371@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004092808.GC9578@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Requesting the userspace to drop _all_ page cache in order allocate a
> number of hugetlb pages or any other affected __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
> requests is simply not reasonable IMHO.
It can be used as a fallback when writing to nr_hugepages and the amount
allocated did not match expectation. Again, I'll defer all of this to
Mike when he returns: he expressed his preference, I suggested an
alternative to consider, and he can make the decision to ack or nack this
patch because he has a better understanding of that expectation from users
who use hugetlb pages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-02 23:03 David Rientjes
2019-10-02 23:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-03 5:00 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-03 5:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-03 8:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-03 19:52 ` David Rientjes
2019-10-04 9:28 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-04 18:02 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2019-10-07 22:15 ` Mike Kravetz
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