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

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:16:08 +0000
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <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" <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 Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:33:32PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 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?

Actually, no big reason for separate patch. So I'm OK to merge this into
patch 5/12.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi