From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9F0C43334 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:32:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F502064D for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:32:28 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org D9F502064D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.ibm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729591AbeIFSH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:07:59 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:33626 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729104AbeIFSH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:07:59 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098421.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w86DUAG9142014 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:32:25 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com (e35.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.153]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2mb3jw4uy0-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:32:24 -0400 Received: from localhost by e35.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! 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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:32:21 -0600 Received: from b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.235]) by b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id w86DWKkU51970066 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 6 Sep 2018 06:32:20 -0700 Received: from b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5722D7805F; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:32:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82107805E; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:32:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [9.102.0.183] (unknown [9.102.0.183]) by b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:32:17 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 1/4] mm: Export alloc_migrate_huge_page To: Michal Hocko Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Alexey Kardashevskiy , mpe@ellerman.id.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org References: <20180906054342.25094-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> <20180906123111.GC26069@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180906123539.GV14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:02:16 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180906123539.GV14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18090613-0012-0000-0000-000016AE33A9 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00009676; HX=3.00000242; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000266; SDB=6.01084383; UDB=6.00559689; IPR=6.00864382; MB=3.00023143; MTD=3.00000008; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2018-09-06 13:32:23 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18090613-0013-0000-0000-0000544EAB15 Message-Id: <50682adc-5be9-1fac-fd84-abc6bbea7549@linux.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-09-06_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=935 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1807170000 definitions=main-1809060137 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/06/2018 06:05 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 06-09-18 14:31:11, Michal Hocko wrote: >> On Thu 06-09-18 11:13:39, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >>> We want to use this to support customized huge page migration. >> >> Please be much more specific. Ideally including the user. Btw. why do >> you want to skip the hugetlb pools? In other words alloc_huge_page_node* >> which are intended to an external use? > > Ups, I have now found http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180906054342.25094-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com > which ended up in a different email folder so I have missed it. It would > be much better to merge those two to make the user immediately obvious. > There is a good reason to keep newly added functions closer to their > users. > It is the same series. I will fold the patch 1 and 2. -aneesh