2014-07-27 오전 10:01, Theodore Ts'o 쓴 글:
Gioh, As follow up, if you want some further discussions about why these patches should be accepted, it would be good to get some hard data about why the keeping the ext4 superblock pinned is causing such a problem for page migation. Can you give us more details about what the impact is of not having these patches? And how it compres to other data structures which are currently allocated in the moveable area and tend to be pinned effectively indefinitely? Thanks, - Ted
I am very sorry to be late. I couldn't access the network for a week. sb_bread() allocates page from movable area but the reference count of the buffer-head that manages page should be zero to migrate the page. Therefore brelase() should be called immediately after sb_bread() such like fat_fill_super(). But ext4 called brelse() when unmount the superblock. The page cannot be movable until unmount. CMA/HOTPLUG memory try to move the page but it fails. If ext4 needs to keep buffer-cache of superblock until unmount, it should allocated the page from non-movable area (because it can be a long time). This patch try to do it. I also sent an email to Jan Kara. Please refer it. Thank you for your kindness. Please inform me if you need any information. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
