linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path

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Message-ID: <20161128143331.GO14788@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:33:32 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
        Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path

On Tue 08-11-16 08:31:51, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> This patch makes it possible to support thp migration gradually. If you fail
> to allocate a destination page as a thp, you just split the source thp as we
> do now, and then enter the normal page migration. If you succeed to allocate
> destination thp, you enter thp migration. Subsequent patches actually enable
> thp migration for each caller of page migration by allowing its get_new_page()
> callback to allocate thps.

Does this need to be in a separate patch? Wouldn't it make more sense to
have the full THP migration code in a single one?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs