linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV

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Date:   Tue, 9 Oct 2018 14:27:45 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Argangeli <andrea@...nel.org>,
        Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stable tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp:  relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE
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[Sorry for being slow in responding but I was mostly offline last few
 days]

On Tue 09-10-18 10:48:25, Mel Gorman wrote:
[...]
> This goes back to my point that the MADV_HUGEPAGE hint should not make
> promises about locality and that introducing MADV_LOCAL for specialised
> libraries may be more appropriate with the initial semantic being how it
> treats MADV_HUGEPAGE regions.

I agree with your other points and not going to repeat them. I am not
sure madvise s the best API for the purpose though. We are talking about
memory policy here and there is an existing api for that so I would
_prefer_ to reuse it for this purpose.

Sure we will likely need somethin in the compaction as well but we
should start simple and go forward in smaller steps.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs