Re: [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:15:49 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > 1. local node only THP allocation with no reclaim, just compaction.
> > 2. for madvised VMA's or when synchronous compaction is enabled always - THP
> >    allocation from any node with effort determined by global defrag setting
> >    and VMA madvise
> > 3. fallback to base pages on any node
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I've given this a try and here are the results of my previous testcase
> (memory full of page cache).

Thanks, I'll queue this for some more testing.  At some point we should
decide on a suitable set of Fixes: tags and a backporting strategy, if any?