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Message-ID: <20160617182751.GB692@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:27:51 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
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	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com,
	maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com, david@...ma-star.at,
	david@...morbit.com, alex@...tthing.co, sasha.levin@...cle.com,
	iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, rvaswani@...eaurora.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, shailendra.capricorn@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: Don't blindly assign fallback_migrate_page()

On Fri 17-06-16 18:55:45, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 17.06.2016 um 18:28 schrieb Michal Hocko:
> > But doesn't this disable the page migration and so potentially reduce
> > the compaction success rate for the large pile of filesystems? Without
> > any hint about that?
> 
> The WARN_ON_ONCE() is the hint. ;)

Right. My reply turned a different way than I meant... I meant to say
that there might be different regressions caused by this change without much
hint that a particular warning would be the smoking gun... 
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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