Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: introduce MADV_COLD

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 20-06-19 09:06:51, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 02:56:12PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > Why cannot we reuse a large part of that code and differ essentially on
> > the reclaim target check and action? Have you considered to consolidate
> > the code to share as much as possible? Maybe that is easier said than
> > done because the devil is always in details...
> 
> Yub, it was not pretty when I tried. Please see last patch in this
> patchset.

That is bad because this code is quite subtle - especially the THP part
of it. I will be staring at the code some more. Maybe some
simplification pops out.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs