From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: cl@linux.com, mika.j.penttila@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, hpa@zytor.com,
yasu.isimatu@gmail.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com,
gongzhaogang@inspur.com, len.brown@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, chen.tang@easystack.cn, rafael@kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] x86, memhp, numa: Online memory-less nodes at boot time.
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:50:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160719185017.GM3078@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1468913288-16605-2-git-send-email-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Hello,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:28:02PM +0800, Dou Liyang wrote:
> In this series of patches, we are going to construct cpu <-> node mapping
> for all possible cpus at boot time, which is a 1-1 mapping. It means the
1-1 mapping means that each cpu is mapped to its own private node
which isn't the case. Just call it a persistent mapping?
> cpu will be mapped to the node it belongs to, and will never be changed.
> If a node has only cpus but no memory, the cpus on it will be mapped to
> a memory-less node. And the memory-less node should be onlined.
>
> This patch allocate pgdats for all memory-less nodes and online them at
> boot time. Then build zonelists for these nodes. As a result, when cpus
> on these memory-less nodes try to allocate memory from local node, it
> will automatically fall back to the proper zones in the zonelists.
Yeah, I think this is an a lot better approach for memory-less nodes.
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-19 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-19 7:28 [PATCH v8 0/7] Make cpuid <-> nodeid mapping persistent Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] x86, memhp, numa: Online memory-less nodes at boot time Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 18:50 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-07-20 1:52 ` Dou Liyang
2016-07-20 2:28 ` Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] x86, acpi, cpu-hotplug: Enable acpi to register all possible cpus " Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] x86, acpi, cpu-hotplug: Introduce cpuid_to_apicid[] array to store persistent cpuid <-> apicid mapping Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] x86, acpi, cpu-hotplug: Enable MADT APIs to return disabled apicid Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] x86, acpi, cpu-hotplug: Set persistent cpuid <-> nodeid mapping when booting Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 20:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-20 1:25 ` Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] Provide the mechanism to validate processors in the ACPI tables Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 7:28 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] Provide the interface to validate the proc_id which they give Dou Liyang
2016-07-19 18:53 ` Tejun Heo
2016-07-20 0:55 ` Dou Liyang
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