From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:31:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8b744d8-ad42-cdbc-f136-2798d68dd049@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4j642Hs4N2rHFEuEON1kQMwf-D0hzROPVFhcaWAK6rpdw@mail.gmail.com>
On 23.06.20 23:15, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:28 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 20.06.20 03:41, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 6:00 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's not completely obvious why we have to shuffle the complete zone, as
>>>> some sort of shuffling is already performed when onlining pages via
>>>> __free_one_page(), placing MAX_ORDER-1 pages either to the head or the tail
>>>> of the freelist. Let's document why we have to shuffle the complete zone
>>>> when exposing larger, contiguous physical memory areas to the buddy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about?
>>>
>>> Fixes: e900a918b098 ("mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve
>>> memory-side-cache utilization")
>>>
>>> ...just like Patch1 since that original commit was missing the proper
>>> commentary in the code?
>>
>> Hmm, mixed feelings. I (working for a distributor :) ) prefer fixes tags
>> for actual BUGs, as described in
>>
>> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst: "If your patch fixes a bug
>> in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using ``git bisect``,
>> please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters" ...
>>
>> So unless there are strong feelings, I'll not add a fixes tag (although
>> I agree, that it should have been contained in the original commit).
>
> It doesn't need to be "Fixes", but how about at least mentioning the
> original commit as a breadcrumb so that some future "git blame"
> archaeology effort is streamlined.
>
Makes sense, I'll mention it as
It's not completely obvious why we have to shuffle the complete zone (
introduced in commit e900a918b098 ("mm: shuffle initial free memory to
...
thanks!
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-24 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 12:59 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/shuffle: fix and cleanups David Hildenbrand
2020-06-19 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/shuffle: don't move pages between zones and don't read garbage memmaps David Hildenbrand
2020-06-20 1:37 ` Williams, Dan J
2020-06-22 8:26 ` Wei Yang
2020-06-22 8:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-22 9:22 ` Wei Yang
2020-06-22 9:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-22 13:10 ` Wei Yang
2020-06-22 14:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-22 21:55 ` Wei Yang
2020-06-23 7:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-23 7:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-23 9:30 ` Wei Yang
2020-07-24 3:08 ` Andrew Morton
2020-07-24 5:45 ` Wei Yang
2020-07-24 8:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-22 14:11 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-19 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant David Hildenbrand
2020-06-20 1:41 ` Dan Williams
2020-06-22 7:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-23 21:15 ` Dan Williams
2020-06-24 9:31 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-06-22 15:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-19 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration David Hildenbrand
2020-06-20 1:49 ` Dan Williams
2020-06-22 7:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-22 8:37 ` Wei Yang
2020-06-23 22:18 ` Dan Williams
2020-06-22 15:37 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-23 1:22 ` Wei Yang
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