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

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 14:41:16 EST


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.
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Mike Kravetz