linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 1/4] mm: Rework {set,clear,mm}_tlb_flush

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Message-ID: <20170802130040.kpvxlkhwrygqlaac@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:00:40 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, will.deacon@....com,
        oleg@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        benh@...nel.crashing.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, npiggin@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        stern@...land.harvard.edu, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 1/4] mm: Rework {set,clear,mm}_tlb_flush_pending()

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:38:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For this to work we need to rework migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
> a little and move the test up into do_huge_pmd_numa_page().
> 

Note that Nadav has a patch in parallel on it's way towards Andrew's
tree that I suggested to always always check if a TLB flush is pending
under the PTL. A conflict will happen but will be trivial to resolve.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs