From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
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Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com>,
qiuxishi@huawei.com, Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@hpe.com>,
slaoub@gmail.com, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: support movable_node for hotplugable nodes
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:16:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170615081611.GD1486@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170615031354.GC16833@WeideMacBook-Pro.local>
On Thu 15-06-17 11:13:54, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 08:45:02AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >On Mon 12-06-17 12:28:32, Wei Yang wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:23:18PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >> >From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> >> >
> >> >movable_node kernel parameter allows to make hotplugable NUMA
> >> >nodes to put all the hotplugable memory into movable zone which
> >> >allows more or less reliable memory hotremove. At least this
> >> >is the case for the NUMA nodes present during the boot (see
> >> >find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes).
> >> >
> >>
> >> When movable_node is enabled, we would have overlapped zones, right?
> >
> >It won't based on this patch. See movable_pfn_range
> >
>
> Ok, I went through the code and here maybe a question not that close related
> to this patch.
Please start a new thread with unrelated questions
> I did some experiment with qemu+kvm and see this.
>
> Guest config: 8G RAM, 2 nodes with 4G on each
> Guest kernel: 4.11
> Guest kernel command: kernelcore=1G
>
> The log message in kernel is:
>
> [ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
> [ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000ffffff]
> [ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
> [ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000023fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
> [ 0.000000] Node 0: 0x0000000100000000
> [ 0.000000] Node 1: 0x0000000140000000
>
> We see on node 2, ZONE_NORMAL overlap with ZONE_MOVABLE.
> [0x0000000140000000 - 0x000000023fffffff] belongs to both ZONE.
Not really. The above output is just confusing a bit. Zone ranges print
arch_zone_{lowest,highest}_possible_pfn range while the Movable zone
is excluded from that in adjust_zone_range_for_zone_movable
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-15 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-08 12:23 [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: support movable_node for hotplugable nodes Michal Hocko
2017-06-10 14:33 ` Wei Yang
2017-06-12 6:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-11 1:45 ` Wei Yang
2017-06-12 6:37 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-12 4:28 ` Wei Yang
2017-06-12 6:45 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-14 9:06 ` Wei Yang
2017-06-14 9:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-06-15 1:03 ` Wei Yang
2017-06-15 3:13 ` Wei Yang
2017-06-15 8:16 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-06-12 8:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-06-12 11:12 ` [PATCH -v2] " Michal Hocko
2017-06-15 3:29 ` [PATCH] " Wei Yang
2017-06-15 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-15 15:43 ` Reza Arbab
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