Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hugetlb: drop hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl

2017-10-03 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 09:26:19AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > hugepages_treat_as_movable has been introduced by 396faf0303d2 ("Allow > huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE") to allow hugetlb > allocations from ZONE_MOVABLE even when hugetlb pages were not > migra

[RFC PATCH] mm, hugetlb: drop hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl

2017-10-03 Thread Michal Hocko
From: Michal Hocko hugepages_treat_as_movable has been introduced by 396faf0303d2 ("Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE") to allow hugetlb allocations from ZONE_MOVABLE even when hugetlb pages were not migrateable. The purpose of the movable zone was different at the time. It aime