Re: [PATCH] mm: Disable movable allocation for TRANSHUGE pages

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:30:19PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 25-09-18 14:51:53, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:55:33PM +0530, Ashish Mhetre wrote:
> > > TRANSHUGE pages have no migration support.
> > 
> > Transparent pages have migration support since v4.14.
> 
> This is true but not for all architectures AFAICS. In fact git grep
> suggests that only x86 supports the migration. So unless I am missing
> something the patch has some merit.

THP pages are movable from the beginning. Before 4.14, the cost of
migration was THP split. From my PoV __GFP_MOVABLE is justified and we
should keep it there.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov




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