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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com,
	pagupta@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
	yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, riel@surriel.com, david@redhat.com,
	mst@redhat.com, dodgen@google.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
	dhildenb@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com,
	alexander.duyck@gmail.com, john.starks@microsoft.com,
	mhocko@suse.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch v11 1/2] mm: page_hinting: core infrastructure
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:45:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <719ac813-01d7-7602-0951-6c90f1f7efc1@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd49381e-cdfa-7ac9-e938-ac790995df24@redhat.com>

On 7/11/19 9:36 AM, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
>>>>> +struct zone_free_area {
>>>>> +	unsigned long *bitmap;
>>>>> +	unsigned long base_pfn;
>>>>> +	unsigned long end_pfn;
>>>>> +	atomic_t free_pages;
>>>>> +	unsigned long nbits;
>>>>> +} free_area[MAX_NR_ZONES];
>>>> Why do we need an extra data structure.  What's wrong with putting
>>>> per-zone data in ... 'struct zone'?
>>> Will it be acceptable to add fields in struct zone, when they will only
>>> be used by page hinting?
>> Wait a sec...  MAX_NR_ZONES the number of zone types not the maximum
>> number of *zones* in the system.
>>
>> Did you test this on a NUMA system?
> Yes, I tested it with a guest having 2 and 3 NUMA nodes.

How can this *possibly* have worked?

Won't each same-typed zone just use the same free_area[] entry since
zone_idx(zone1)==zone_idx(zone2) if zone1 and zone2 are (for example)
both ZONE_NORMAL?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-11 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-10 19:51 [RFC][PATCH v11 0/2] mm: Support for page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-10 19:51 ` [RFC][Patch v11 1/2] mm: page_hinting: core infrastructure Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-10 20:45   ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-11 11:48     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 15:25     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 15:50       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 16:22       ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-11 16:36         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 16:45           ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2019-07-11 16:52             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-15  9:26     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-10 21:56   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-11 17:58     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 23:20       ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-12  1:12         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-12 16:22           ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-12 16:25             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-08-08 11:41             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 18:21   ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-15  9:33     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-15 14:40       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-10 19:51 ` [RFC][Patch v11 2/2] virtio-balloon: page_hinting: reporting to the host Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 19:47   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 19:56     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-24 20:10       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 20:06     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-10 19:53 ` [QEMU Patch] virtio-baloon: Support for page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-10 20:17   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-11 12:03     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11  8:49   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-11 11:13     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 18:55   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-11 19:06     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 22:36       ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-10 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH v11 0/2] mm: " Dave Hansen
2019-07-11 11:37   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-10 23:40 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-11 11:30   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 14:58     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-11 15:03       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 15:08         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-11 15:19           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-11 17:01             ` Alexander Duyck

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