Re: [RFC PATCH V2 1/4] mm: Export alloc_migrate_huge_page

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Sep 06 2018 - 08:35:43 EST


On Thu 06-09-18 14:31:11, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 06-09-18 11:13:39, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > We want to use this to support customized huge page migration.
>
> Please be much more specific. Ideally including the user. Btw. why do
> you want to skip the hugetlb pools? In other words alloc_huge_page_node*
> which are intended to an external use?

Ups, I have now found http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180906054342.25094-2-aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
which ended up in a different email folder so I have missed it. It would
be much better to merge those two to make the user immediately obvious.
There is a good reason to keep newly added functions closer to their
users.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs