linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 0/3] few memory offlining enhancements

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Message-Id: <20181120134323.13007-1-mhocko@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:43:20 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@...e.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] few memory offlining enhancements

I have been chasing memory offlining not making progress recently. On
the way I have noticed few weird decisions in the code. The migration
itself is restricted without a reasonable justification and the retry
loop around the migration is quite messy. This is addressed by patch 1
and patch 2.

Patch 3 is targeting on the faultaround code which has been a hot
candidate for the initial issue reported upstream [1] and that I am
debugging internally. It turned out to be not the main contributor
in the end but I believe we should address it regardless. See the patch
description for more details.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114070909.GB2653@MiWiFi-R3L-srv