From: osalvador@suse.de
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/12] mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions of a section at boot
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 14:56:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ce1d8dfe8e485616f9ade30fade88a5@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155718598213.130019.10989541248734713186.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 2019-05-07 01:39, Dan Williams wrote:
> Prepare for hot{plug,remove} of sub-ranges of a section by tracking a
> sub-section active bitmask, each bit representing a PMD_SIZE span of
> the
> architecture's memory hotplug section size.
>
> The implications of a partially populated section is that pfn_valid()
> needs to go beyond a valid_section() check and read the sub-section
> active ranges from the bitmask. The expectation is that the bitmask
> (subsection_map) fits in the same cacheline as the valid_section()
> data,
> so the incremental performance overhead to pfn_valid() should be
> negligible.
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> Tested-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Now that the handling is done in pfn/nr_pages, it looks better to me:
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-10 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-06 23:39 [PATCH v8 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 01/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce struct mem_section_usage Dan Williams
2019-05-10 13:30 ` osalvador
2019-05-10 19:38 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 02/12] mm/memremap: Rename and consolidate SECTION_SIZE Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 03/12] mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions of a section at boot Dan Williams
2019-05-10 12:56 ` osalvador [this message]
2019-05-06 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 04/12] mm/hotplug: Prepare shrink_{zone, pgdat}_span for sub-section removal Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 05/12] mm/sparsemem: Convert kmalloc_section_memmap() to populate_section_memmap() Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 06/12] mm/hotplug: Kill is_dev_zone() usage in __remove_pages() Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v8 07/12] mm: Kill is_dev_zone() helper Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v8 08/12] mm/sparsemem: Prepare for sub-section ranges Dan Williams
2019-05-10 13:00 ` osalvador
2019-05-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v8 09/12] mm/sparsemem: Support sub-section hotplug Dan Williams
2019-05-08 23:15 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-13 13:54 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-06-04 4:47 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v8 10/12] mm/devm_memremap_pages: Enable sub-section remap Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v8 11/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields Dan Williams
2019-05-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v8 12/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Stop padding pmem namespaces to section alignment Dan Williams
2019-05-13 21:01 ` [PATCH v8 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support Mike Rapoport
2019-05-13 21:11 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-04 7:41 ` Oscar Salvador
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