Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v3 04/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate

From: Muchun Song
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 22:23:01 EST


On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 3:40 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11/9/20 6:42 PM, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:48 AM Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 10:10:56PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> >>
> >> Unrelated to this patch but related in general, I am not sure about Mike but
> >> would it be cleaner to move all the vmemmap functions to hugetlb_vmemmap.c?
> >> hugetlb code is quite tricky, so I am not sure about stuffing more code
> >> in there.
> >>
> >
> > I also think that you are right, moving all the vmemmap functions to
> > hugetlb_vmemmap.c may make the code cleaner.
> >
> > Hi Mike, what's your opinion?
>
> I would be happy to see this in a separate file. As Oscar mentions, the
> hugetlb.c file/code is already somethat difficult to read and understand.

Got it. I will do this. Thanks.

> --
> Mike Kravetz



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Yours,
Muchun