linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Do not touch pages in remove

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Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:16:35 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     osalvador@...hadventures.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     mhocko@...e.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        pasha.tatashin@...cle.com, jglisse@...hat.com,
        yasu.isimatu@...il.com, logang@...tatee.com, dave.jiang@...el.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Do not touch pages in remove_memory path

On 07.08.2018 15:37, osalvador@...hadventures.net wrote:
> From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> 
> This tries to fix [1], which was reported by David Hildenbrand, and also
> does some cleanups/refactoring.
> 
> I am sending this as RFC to see if the direction I am going is right before
> spending more time into it.
> And also to gather feedback about hmm/zone_device stuff.
> The code compiles and I tested it successfully with normal memory-hotplug operations.
>

Please coordinate next time with people already working on this,
otherwise you might end up wasting other people's time.

Anyhow, thanks for looking into this.

-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb