From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f72.google.com (mail-wm0-f72.google.com [74.125.82.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EC92802FE for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 07:01:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f72.google.com with SMTP id s187so3307432wmd.5 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d72si3484033wmh.46.2017.06.30.04.01.22 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:01:18 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: remove zone restrictions Message-ID: <20170630110118.GG22917@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20170629073509.623-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20170629073509.623-3-mhocko@kernel.org> <20170630083926.GA22923@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170630095545.GF22917@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170630095545.GF22917@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Wei Yang Cc: Linux-MM , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Vlastimil Babka , Andrea Arcangeli , Reza Arbab , Yasuaki Ishimatsu , Xishi Qiu , Kani Toshimitsu , slaoub@gmail.com, Joonsoo Kim , Daniel Kiper , Igor Mammedov , Vitaly Kuznetsov , LKML On Fri 30-06-17 11:55:45, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 30-06-17 17:39:56, Wei Yang wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > > yes and to be honest I do not plan to fix it unless somebody has a real > > > life usecase for it. Now that we allow explicit onlininig type anywhere > > > it seems like a reasonable behavior and this will allow us to remove > > > quite some code which is always a good deal wrt longterm maintenance. > > > > > > > hmm... the statistics displayed in /proc/zoneinfo would be meaningless > > for zone_normal and zone_movable. > > Why would they be meaningless? Counters will always reflect the actual > use - if not then it is a bug. And wrt to zone description what is > meaningless about > memory34/valid_zones:Normal > memory35/valid_zones:Normal Movable > memory36/valid_zones:Movable > memory37/valid_zones:Movable Normal > memory38/valid_zones:Movable Normal > memory39/valid_zones:Movable Normal > memory40/valid_zones:Normal > memory41/valid_zones:Movable > > And > Node 1, zone Normal > pages free 65465 > min 156 > low 221 > high 286 > spanned 229376 > present 65536 > managed 65536 > [...] > start_pfn: 1114112 > Node 1, zone Movable > pages free 65443 > min 156 > low 221 > high 286 > spanned 196608 > present 65536 > managed 65536 > [...] > start_pfn: 1179648 > > ranges are clearly defined as [start_pfn, start_pfn+managed] and managed errr, this should be [start_pfn, start_pfn + spanned] of course. > matches the number of onlined pages (256MB). -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org