Re: [PATCH 04/18] mm: numa: Do not clear PMD during PTE update scan

[Rik van Riel]

On 12/09/2013 02:08 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> If the PMD is flushed then a parallel fault in handle_mm_fault() will enter
> the pmd_none and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() path where it'll attempt
> to insert a huge zero page. This is wasteful so the patch avoids clearing
> the PMD when setting pmd_numa.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>


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