Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

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On 20.11.18 15:25, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 20-11-18 15:18:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> [...]
>> (we could also check for pending signals inside that function if really
>> required)
> 
> do_migrate_pages is not the proper layer to check signals. Because the
> loop only isolates pages and that is not expensive. The most expensive
> part is deeper down in the migration core. We wait for page lock or
> writeback and that can take a long. None of that is killable wait which
> is a larger surgery but something that we should consider should there
> be any need to address this.

Indeed, that makes sense.

> 
>> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks!
> 


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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