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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2023 02:51:36 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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        Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>, ke.wang@unisoc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5] mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 03:35:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This patch fixes unproductive reclaiming of CMA pages by skipping them when they
> > are not available for current context. It is arise from bellowing OOM issue, which
> > caused by large proportion of MIGRATE_CMA pages among free pages.
> 
> We saw plenty of feedback for earlier versions, but now silence.  Does
> this mean we're all OK with v5?

I'm fine with the implementation now.  I have no idea if this is the right
approach.