linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/hugetlb: not necessary to coalesce regions recursively

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Message-ID: <7ef97c47-f193-7664-fbcc-21fbaa27c26a@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:22:29 -0700
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/hugetlb: not necessary to coalesce regions
 recursively

On 8/7/20 2:12 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
> Per my understanding, we keep the regions ordered and would always
> coalesce regions properly. So the task to keep this property is just
> to coalesce its neighbour.
> 
> Let's simplify this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>

Thanks!  It is unfortunate that the region management code is difficult
to understand.

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
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Mike Kravetz