Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/hugetlb: not necessary to coalesce regions recursively

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Mon Aug 10 2020 - 16:24:43 EST


On 8/7/20 2:12 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
> Per my understanding, we keep the regions ordered and would always
> coalesce regions properly. So the task to keep this property is just
> to coalesce its neighbour.
>
> Let's simplify this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! It is unfortunate that the region management code is difficult
to understand.

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Mike Kravetz