linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: hugetlb: make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:17:16 +0100
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, muchun.song@...ux.dev, david@...hat.com,
	linmiaohe@...wei.com, naoya.horiguchi@....com, mhocko@...nel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: hugetlb: make the hugetlb migration strategy
 consistent

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 09:52:26PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:

> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2567,13 +2567,38 @@ static struct folio *alloc_surplus_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
>  }
>  
>  static struct folio *alloc_migrate_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> -				     int nid, nodemask_t *nmask)
> +				     int nid, nodemask_t *nmask, int reason)

I still dislike taking the reason argument this far, and I'd rather have
this as a boolean specifing whether we allow fallback on other nodes.
That would mean parsing the reason in alloc_migration_target().
If we don't add a new helper e.g: gfp_allow_fallback(), we can just do
it right there an opencode it with a e.g: macro etc.

Although doing it in an inline helper might help hiding these details.

That's my take on this, but let's see what others have to say.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs