Re: a question of split_huge_page
From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Fri Jul 10 2020 - 06:33:22 EST
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:51:58PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
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> å 2020/7/10 äå12:07, Kirill A. Shutemov åé:
> > Right, and it's never got removed from LRU during the split. The tail
> > pages have to be added to LRU because they now separate from the tail
> > page.
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> According to the explaination, looks like we could remove the code path,
> since it's never got into. (base on my v15 patchset). Any comments?
Yes. But why? It's reasonable failsafe that gives chance to recover if
something goes wrong.
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Kirill A. Shutemov