From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:01:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201123220113.GW4327@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37f4bf02-c438-9fbd-32ea-8bedbe30c4da@oracle.com>
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:52:13PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 11/22/20 11:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 20-11-20 09:45:12, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> >> Not sure if I agree with that last statement. Database and virtualization
> >> use cases from my employer allocate allocate hugetlb pages after boot. It
> >> is shortly after boot, but still not from boot/kernel command line.
> >
> > Is there any strong reason for that?
>
> The reason I have been given is that it is preferable to have SW compute
> the number of needed huge pages after boot based on total memory, rather
> than have a sysadmin calculate the number and add a boot parameter.
Oh, I remember this bug! I think it was posted publically, even.
If the sysadmin configures, say, 90% of the RAM to be hugepages and
then a DIMM fails and the sysadmin doesn't remember to adjust the boot
parameter, Linux does some pretty horrible things and the symptom is
"Linux doesn't boot".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-23 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-20 6:43 [PATCH v5 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 01/21] mm/memory_hotplug: Move bootmem info registration API to bootmem_info.c Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 02/21] mm/memory_hotplug: Move {get,put}_page_bootmem() " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 03/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-11-20 7:49 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 8:35 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:47 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 8:53 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 04/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 05/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable allocation/freeing helpers Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 06/21] mm/bootmem_info: Introduce {free,prepare}_vmemmap_page() Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 07/21] mm/bootmem_info: Combine bootmem info and type into page->freelist Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 08/21] mm/hugetlb: Initialize page table lock for vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 09/21] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 10/21] mm/hugetlb: Defer freeing of hugetlb pages Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 11/21] mm/hugetlb: Allocate the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:11 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 8:51 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 9:28 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 9:37 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-20 11:10 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 11:56 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 12/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce remap_huge_page_pmd_vmemmap helper Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 13/21] mm/hugetlb: Use PG_slab to indicate split pmd Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:16 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 9:30 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-23 7:48 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 8:01 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 14/21] mm/hugetlb: Support freeing vmemmap pages of gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 15/21] mm/hugetlb: Set the PageHWPoison to the raw error page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:19 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 10:32 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 16/21] mm/hugetlb: Flush work when dissolving hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 17/21] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 10:39 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 18/21] mm/hugetlb: Merge pte to huge pmd only for gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:23 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 10:41 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 19/21] mm/hugetlb: Gather discrete indexes of tail page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 20/21] mm/hugetlb: Add BUILD_BUG_ON to catch invalid usage of tail struct page Muchun Song
2020-11-20 6:43 ` [PATCH v5 21/21] mm/hugetlb: Disable freeing vmemmap if struct page size is not power of two Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 9:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-11-22 13:30 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-11-22 19:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-23 3:14 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 9:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-11-20 10:42 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 8:42 ` [PATCH v5 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 9:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-11-20 9:39 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 9:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-11-20 17:45 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-20 18:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-11-22 7:29 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-23 7:38 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 21:52 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-23 22:01 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-11-20 12:40 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-20 13:11 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-20 15:44 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 7:40 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 8:53 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 9:43 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 10:36 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 10:42 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 11:16 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 11:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 12:07 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 12:18 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 12:40 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-23 12:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-23 13:05 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-23 13:13 ` Michal Hocko
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