Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Jun 11 2019 - 22:52:28 EST


On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 02:07:37PM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> + /*
> + * The THP may be not on LRU at this point, e.g. the old page of
> + * NUMA migration. And PageTransHuge is not enough to distinguish
> + * with other compound page, e.g. skb, THP destructor is not used
> + * anymore and will be removed, so the compound order sounds like
> + * the only choice here.
> + */
> + if (PageTransHuge(page) && compound_order(page) == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {

What happens if the page is the same order as THP is not THP? Why removing
of destructor is required?

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Kirill A. Shutemov