On Mon 03-04-17 09:24:52, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On 04/03/2017 04:51 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Wed 08-03-17 17:30:55, Mike Kravetz wrote: > >> On 01/10/2017 03:02 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote: > >>> Another more concrete topic is hugetlb reservations. Michal Hocko > >>> proposed the topic "mm patches review bandwidth", and brought up the > >>> related subject of areas in need of attention from an architectural > >>> POV. I suggested that hugetlb reservations was one such area. I'm > >>> guessing it was introduced to solve a rather concrete problem. However, > >>> over time additional hugetlb functionality was added and the > >>> capabilities of the reservation code was stretched to accommodate. > >>> It would be good to step back and take a look at the design of this > >>> code to determine if a rewrite/redesign is necessary. Michal suggested > >>> documenting the current design/code as a first step. If people think > >>> this is worth discussion at the summit, I could put together such a > >>> design before the gathering. > >> > >> I attempted to put together a design/overview of how hugetlb reservations > >> currently work. Hopefully, this will be useful. > > > > I am still too busy to read through this carefuly and provide a useful > > feedback but I believe this should go int Documentation/vm/hugetlb$foo > > file. Care to send it as a patch please? > > Sure > > There is some incomplete information in the document, so I will make > some revisions and then send out as patch later this week. Thanks a lot. This is highly appreciated! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
