Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, numa: rework do_pages_move

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Jan 05 2018 - 13:48:17 EST


On Fri 05-01-18 12:41:22, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > I believe there should be some cap on the number of pages. We shouldn't
> > keep it held for million of pages if all of them are moved to the same
> > node. I would really like to postpone that to later unless it causes
> > some noticeable regressions because this would complicate the code
> > further and I am not sure this is all worth it.
>
> Attached a patch to make the code more readable.
>
> Also why are you migrating the pages on pagelist if a
> add_page_for_migration() fails? One could simply update
> the status in user space and continue.

I am open to further cleanups. Care to send a full patch with the
changelog? I would rather not fold more changes to the already tested
one.

Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs