From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] Make MAX_ORDER adjustable as a kernel boot time parameter.
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 18:32:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d374eed-cc52-a656-b338-1156782bdf7e@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210805190253.2795604-1-zi.yan@sent.com>
On 8/5/21 9:02 PM, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This patchset add support for kernel boot time adjustable MAX_ORDER, so that
> user can change the largest size of pages obtained from buddy allocator. It also
> removes the restriction on MAX_ORDER based on SECTION_SIZE_BITS, so that
> buddy allocator can merge PFNs across memory sections when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is
> set. It is on top of v5.14-rc4-mmotm-2021-08-02-18-51.
>
> Motivation
> ===
>
> This enables kernel to allocate 1GB pages and is necessary for my ongoing work
> on adding support for 1GB PUD THP[1]. This is also the conclusion I came up with
> after some discussion with David Hildenbrand on what methods should be used for
> allocating gigantic pages[2], since other approaches like using CMA allocator or
> alloc_contig_pages() are regarded as suboptimal.
I see references [1] [2] etc but no list of links at the end, did you
forgot to include?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-06 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 19:02 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Make MAX_ORDER adjustable as a kernel boot time parameter Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] arch: x86: remove MAX_ORDER exceeding SECTION_SIZE check for 32bit vdso Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] arch: mm: rename FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER to ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] mm: check pfn validity when buddy allocator can merge pages across mem sections Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] mm: prevent pageblock size being larger than section size Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] mm/memory_hotplug: online pages at " Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] mm: use PAGES_PER_SECTION instead for mem_map_offset/next() Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] mm: hugetlb: use PAGES_PER_SECTION to check mem_map discontiguity Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] fs: proc: use PAGES_PER_SECTION for page offline checking period Zi Yan
2021-08-07 10:32 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-08-09 15:45 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] " Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] virtio: virtio_mem: use PAGES_PER_SECTION instead of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES Zi Yan
2021-08-09 7:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] virtio: virtio_balloon: " Zi Yan
2021-08-09 7:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] mm/page_reporting: report pages at section size instead of MAX_ORDER Zi Yan
2021-08-09 7:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-09 14:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-08-09 15:08 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-09 16:51 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-08-09 14:08 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] mm: Make MAX_ORDER of buddy allocator configurable via Kconfig SET_MAX_ORDER Zi Yan
2021-08-06 15:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-08-06 15:23 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] mm: convert MAX_ORDER sized static arrays to dynamic ones Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:16 ` Christian König
2021-08-05 19:58 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-06 9:37 ` Christian König
2021-08-06 14:00 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] mm: introduce MIN_MAX_ORDER to replace MAX_ORDER as compile time constant Zi Yan
2021-08-08 8:23 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-08-09 15:35 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-05 19:02 ` [RFC PATCH 15/15] mm: make MAX_ORDER a kernel boot time parameter Zi Yan
2021-08-06 15:36 ` [RFC PATCH 00/15] Make MAX_ORDER adjustable as " Vlastimil Babka
2021-08-06 16:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-06 16:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-08-06 17:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-06 18:24 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-09 7:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-08 7:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-08-06 16:32 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-08-06 17:19 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-06 20:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-08-06 21:26 ` Zi Yan
2021-08-09 4:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-08-07 1:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-07 21:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-09 4:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-08-09 11:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-09 7:41 ` David Hildenbrand
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