On Tue 23-03-21 16:18:08, Mike Kravetz wrote: [...] > Here is another thought. > In patch 5 you suggest removing all pages from hugetlb with the lock > held, and adding them to a list. Then, drop the lock and free all > pages on the list. If we do this, then the value computed here (min_count) > can not change while we are looping. So, this patch would be unnecessary. > That is another argument in favor of batching the frees. > > Unless there is something wrong in my thinking, I am going to take that > approach and drop this patch.
Makes sense -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
