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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:36:48 +0200
From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] memory-hotplug: remove MIGRATE_ISOLATE from free_area->free_list
On Tue, Sep 11 2012, Minchan Kim wrote:
> I saw two bug report about MIGRATE_ISOALTE type and NR_FREE_PAGES accounting
> mistmatch problem until now and I think we can meet more problems
> in the near future without solving it.
>
> Maybe, [1] would be a solution but I really don't like to add new branch
> in hotpath, even MIGRATE_ISOLATE used very rarely.
> so, my patch is inpired. If there is another good idea that avoid
> new branch in hotpath and solve the fundamental problem, I will drop this
> patch.
>
> [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/85199.
Well... I am still not convinced.
Than again you clearly have put some thought into it and, more
importantly, I'm not the one deciding whether this gets merged or
not, anyway. ;)
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