linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Fix pool resizing corner case

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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:03:36 -0700
From:	"Ken Chen" <kenchen@...gle.com>
To:	"Adam Litke" <agl@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Dave Hansen" <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Fix pool resizing corner case

On 10/3/07, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com> wrote:
> The key is that we don't want to shrink the pool below the number of
> pages we are committed to keeping around.  Before this patch, we only
> accounted for the pages we plan to hand out (reserved huge pages) but
> not the ones we've already handed out (total - free).  Does that make
> sense?

Good catch, adam.

>From what I can see, the statement
        if (count >= nr_huge_pages)
                return nr_huge_pages;

in set_max_huge_pages() is useless because (1) we recalculate "count"
variable below it; and (2) both try_to_free_low() and the while loop
below the call to try_to_free_low() will terminate correctly.  If you
feel like it, please clean it up as well.

If not, I'm fine with that.

Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>
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