linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 08/10] mm/gup: limit number of gup migration failures, honor failures

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Message-ID: <20210113234044.GF4605@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:40:44 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
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        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/10] mm/gup: limit number of gup migration failures,
 honor failures

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 03:05:41PM -0500, Pavel Tatashin wrote:

> Makes sense, I will remove maximum retries for isolation, and retry
> indefinitely, the same as it is done during memory hot-remove. So, we
> will fail only when migration fails.

It would be good to make this also as a stand alone pre-fix as well..

Thanks,
Jason