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Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for inode/dentry hash tables in early boot

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:01:40PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote:
> From: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch is based on Mel Gorman's old patch in the mailing list,
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/280 which is dicussed but it is
> fixed with a completion to wait for all memory initialised in
> page_alloc_init_late(). It is to fix the oom problem on X86
> with 24TB memory which allocates memory in late initialisation.
> But for Power platform with 32TB memory, it causes a call trace
> in vfs_caches_init->inode_init() and inode hash table needs more
> memory.
> So this patch allocates 1GB for 0.25TB/node for large system
> as it is mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/627
> 

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for inode/dentry hash tables in early boot Li Zhang <zhlcindy@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 08:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for  inode/dentry hash tables in early boot Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-03-03 09:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for inode/dentry  hash tables in early boot Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-03 10:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for  inode/dentry hash tables in early boot Li Zhang <zhlcindy@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 06:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for  inode/dentry hash tables in early boot Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-04 09:50 +0100

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