linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:00:35 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     osalvador <osalvador@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section
 worth of pages

On Tue 20-11-18 15:51:32, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 14:43 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> > 
> > do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to
> > 256
> > for some reason which is not documented. 
> 
> When looking back at old memory-hotplug commits one feels pretty sad
> about the brevity of the changelogs.

Well, things evolve and we've become much more careful about changelogs
over time. It still gets quite a lot of time to push back on changelogs
even these days though. People still keep forgetting that "what" is not
as important as "why" because the former is usually quite easy to
understand from reading the diff. The intention behind is usually what
gets forgotten after years. I guess people realize this much more after
few excavation git blame tours.

> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs