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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Hoan Tran OS <hoan@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Open Source Review <OpenSourceReview@amperecomputing.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: Enable NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config for NUMA
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:12:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190625101245.s4vxfosoop52gl4e@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1561387098-23692-1-git-send-email-Hoan@os.amperecomputing.com>

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 02:38:28PM +0000, Hoan Tran OS wrote:
> Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span other nodes.
> Even though a pfn is valid and between a node's start and end pfns,
> it may not reside on that node.
> 
> This patch enables NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config for NUMA to support
> this type of NUMA layout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <Hoan@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 697ea05..21fc168 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -873,6 +873,13 @@ config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
>  config HOLES_IN_ZONE
>  	def_bool y
>  
> +# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span other nodes.
> +# Even though a pfn is valid and between a node's start and end pfns,
> +# it may not reside on that node.
> +config NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> +	def_bool y
> +	depends on ACPI_NUMA

How come this is specific to ACPI?

It would be nice if this was the default, given that only ia64, mips and
sh appear to be the only NUMA-capable architectures which don't have it.
In other words, replace the #ifdef CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES in
mm/page_alloc.c with #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA.

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-24 14:38 [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: Enable NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config for NUMA Hoan Tran OS
2019-06-25 10:12 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2019-06-25 14:55   ` Hoan Tran OS
2020-02-03 19:55 Hoan Tran
2020-02-06 10:23 ` Will Deacon
2020-02-06 20:01   ` Hoan Tran
2020-02-25 23:20     ` Hoan Tran
2020-03-11  6:31       ` Hoan Tran
2020-03-11 11:27     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-03-28 18:36       ` Hoan Tran

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