Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path

From	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path
Date	2016-11-28 15:40 +0100
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On Tue 08-11-16 08:31:51, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> This patch makes it possible to support thp migration gradually. If you fail
> to allocate a destination page as a thp, you just split the source thp as we
> do now, and then enter the normal page migration. If you succeed to allocate
> destination thp, you enter thp migration. Subsequent patches actually enable
> thp migration for each caller of page migration by allowing its get_new_page()
> callback to allocate thps.

Does this need to be in a separate patch? Wouldn't it make more sense to
have the full THP migration code in a single one?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-11-28 15:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2016-11-29 09:30 +0100

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