On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 08:34:10PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Page isolation doesn't actually touch the pages, it simply isolates > pageblocks and moves all free pages to the MIGRATE_ISOLATE freelist. > > We already place pages to the tail of the freelists when undoing > isolation via __putback_isolated_page(), let's do it in any case > (e.g., if order == pageblock_order) and document the behavior. > > This change results in all pages getting onlined via online_pages() to > be placed to the tail of the freelist. > > Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> > Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiy...@linux.alibaba.com> > Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de> > Cc: Mike Rapoport <r...@kernel.org> > Cc: Scott Cheloha <chel...@linux.ibm.com> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
LGTM. Feel the same way about move_freepages_block_tail/move_freepages_block_tail wrappers, I think we are better off without them. Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de> Thanks -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3
