Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/compaction: count pages and stop correctly during page isolation.

From: Zi Yan
Date: Fri Oct 30 2020 - 14:15:15 EST


On 30 Oct 2020, at 14:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:57:15AM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
>> In isolate_migratepages_block, when cc->alloc_contig is true, we are
>> able to isolate compound pages, nr_migratepages and nr_isolated did not
>> count compound pages correctly, causing us to isolate more pages than we
>> thought. Use thp_nr_pages to count pages. Otherwise, we might be trapped
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Maybe replace that sentence with "Count compound pages as the number of
> base pages they contain"?

Sure. And compound_nr is used instead of thp_nr_pages in fact.

OK. V3 is coming.


Best Regards,
Yan Zi

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