linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm: Remember young bit for migration entries

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:07:02 -0700
From:   Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm: Remember young bit for migration entries

On Jul 28, 2022, at 6:40 PM, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com> wrote:

> [Marking as RFC; only x86 is supported for now, plan to add a few more
> archs when there's a formal version]
> 
> Problem
> =======
> 
> When migrate a page, right now we always mark the migrated page as old.
> The reason could be that we don't really know whether the page is hot or
> cold, so we could have taken it a default negative assuming that's safer.

Looks good to me.

I just wonder whether the order of the patches should be different. I always
understood that separating the “enabling” patch from the others is not a
good practice, since it complicates bisection. I guess it is more of a minor
issue for such a small patch-set…