Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve Capper <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] mm/hugetlb: Distinguish between migratability and movability | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:33:52 +0000 |
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Hi Anshuman,
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 06:31:57PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > During huge page allocation it's migratability is checked to determine if > it should be placed under movable zones with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. But the > movability aspect of the huge page could depend on other factors than just > migratability. Movability in itself is a distinct property which should not > be tied with migratability alone. > > This differentiates these two and implements an enhanced movability check > which also considers huge page size to determine if it is feasible to be > placed under a movable zone. At present it just checks for gigantic pages > but going forward it can incorporate other enhanced checks. > > Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> > Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
FWIW: Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
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