10:07 a.m.
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 09:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:50:36 -0700 Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck(a)linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 15:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 21:42:47 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko(a)kernel.org>
wrote:
> >
> > > > I got your explanation. However Andrew had already applied the
patches
> > > > and I had some outstanding issues in them that needed to be
addressed.
> > > > So I thought it best to send out this set of patches with those
fixes
> > > > before the code in mm became too stale. I am still working on what
to
> > > > do about the Reserved bit, and plan to submit it as a follow-up set.
> > > > From my experience Andrew can drop patches between different versions
of
> > > the patchset. Things can change a lot while they are in mmotm and under
> > > the discussion.
> >
> > It's been a while and everyone has forgotten everything, so I'll drop
> > this version of the patchset.
> >
>
> As far as getting to the reserved bit I probably won't have the time in
> the near future. If I were to resubmit the first 4 patches as a
> standalone patch set would that be acceptable, or would they be held up
> as well until the reserved bit issues is addressed?
>
Yes, I think that merging the first four will be OK. As long as they
don't add some bug which [5/5] corrects, which happens sometimes!
Please redo, retest and resend sometime?
I had gone through and tested with each patch applied individually when
I was performance testing them, and I am fairly certain there wasn't a
bug introduced between any two patches.
The issue that I recall Michal had was the fact that I was essentially
embedding the setting of the reserved page under several layers of
function calls, which would make it harder to remove. I started that
work at about patch 5 which is why I figured I would resend the first
4, and hold off on 5-7 until I can get the reserved bit removal for
hotplug done.
I can probably have the patches ready to go in a couple days. I'll send
updates once linux-next and mmotm with the patches dropped have been
posted.
Thanks.
- Alex