On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:48:31AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > I was preparing v5, and I wanted to be sure I understood you here. > > > > Right you are that the in-use page check can be dropped, as those pages > > can > > be migrated away, and the Hugetlb page check can also be dropped since > > isolate_migratepages_range is now capable of dealing with those kind of > > pages. > > > > > b) Similarly, check for gigantic pages and/or movability/migratability. > > > > I lost you here. > > > > isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page() already bails out on hugetlb-gigantic > > pages. > > > > Or do you mean to place an upfront check here? (hstate_is_gigantic())? > > Yes. But I prefer a) and keeping it simple here -- just doing basic sanity > checks (online, zone, PageReserved()) that are absolutely necessary. Ok, I am probably dense as I understood as if you were lean towards having a) + b). That is what I have as the last patch of the patchset: >From e97175b7d4970cbdcbafcf8c398f72a571e817b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:03:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm,page_alloc: Drop unnecesary checks from pfn_range_valid_contig pfn_range_valid_contig() bails out when it finds an in-use page or a hugetlb page, among other things. We can drop the in-use page check since __alloc_contig_pages can migrate away those pages, and the hugetlb page check can go too since isolate_migratepages_range is now capable of dealing with hugetlb pages. Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 4cb455355f6d..50d73e68b79e 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -8685,12 +8685,6 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struct zone *z, unsigned long start_pfn, if (PageReserved(page)) return false; - - if (page_count(page) > 0) - return false; - - if (PageHuge(page)) - return false; } return true; } -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3