Re: [PATCH 1/5] pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:19:28PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:11:25AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Before we goto this retry, there is at a cond_resched(). Just to confirm,
> > we are depending on mmap_sem to prevent khugepaged promoting this back to
> > a hugepage, right? I don't see a problem with that but I want to be
> > sure.
> 
> Correct, and we depend on that everywhere as wait_split_huge_page has
> to run without holding spinlocks.
> 

In that case;

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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