Re: [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 09:50:32 EST


On 10/1/19 7:43 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> so we do not get more that 12 huge pages which is really poor. Although
> hugetlb pages tend to be allocated early after the boot they are still
> an explicit admin request and having less than 5% success rate is really
> bad. If anything the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL needs to be reflected in the
> code.

Yeah it's roughly what I expected, thanks for the testing. How about this
patch on top?

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