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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] mm: page_alloc: fix up block types when merging compatible blocks
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On 11 Sep 2023, at 15:41, Johannes Weiner wrote:

> The buddy allocator coalesces compatible blocks during freeing, but it
> doesn't update the types of the subblocks to match. When an allocation
> later breaks the chunk down again, its pieces will be put on freelists
> of the wrong type. This encourages incompatible page mixing (ask for
> one type, get another), and thus long-term fragmentation.
>
> Update the subblocks when merging a larger chunk, such that a later
> expand() will maintain freelist type hygiene.
>
> v2:
> - remove spurious change_pageblock_range() move (Zi Yan)
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>

LGTM. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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