linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: numa: Slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur

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Message-ID: <20150312184925.GH3406@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:49:26 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: numa: Slow PTE scan rate if migration failures
 occur

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:20:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > I believe you're correct and it matches what was observed. I'm still
> > travelling and wireless is dirt but managed to queue a test using pmd_dirty
> 
> Ok, thanks.
> 
> I'm not entirely happy with that change, and I suspect the whole
> heuristic should be looked at much more (maybe it should also look at
> whether it's executable, for example), but it's a step in the right
> direction.
> 

I can follow up when I'm back in work properly. As you have already pulled
this in directly, can you also consider pulling in "mm: thp: return the
correct value for change_huge_pmd" please? The other two patches were very
minor can be resent through the normal paths later.
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