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| From | Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining |
| Date | 2017-03-17 14:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tm0gN-77w-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tldg5-5yN-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Wed 15-03-17 10:13:47, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> It seems that all this is just started by the semantic introduced by
> 9d99aaa31f59 ("[PATCH] x86_64: Support memory hotadd without sparsemem")
> quite some time ago. When the movable onlinining has been introduced it
> just built on top of this. It seems that the requirement to have
> freshly probed memory associated with the zone normal is no longer
> necessary. HOTPLUG depends on CONFIG_SPARSEMEM these days.
>
> The following blob [2] simply removes all the zone specific operations
> from __add_pages (aka arch_add_memory) path. Instead we do page->zone
> association from move_pfn_range which is called from online_pages. The
> criterion for movable/normal zone association is really simple now. We
> just have to guarantee that zone Normal is always lower than zone
> Movable. It would be actually sufficient to guarantee they do not
> overlap and that is indeed trivial to implement now. I didn't do that
> yet for simplicity of this change though.
Does anybody have any comments on this? Any issues I've overlooked
(except for the one pointed by Toshi Kani which is already fixed in my
local branch)?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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[RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-15 10:20 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-03-15 11:50 +0100
ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE (was: Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-15 13:40 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-03-15 14:00 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-15 14:20 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-03-15 17:40 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2017-03-16 06:40 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 20:20 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-17 11:30 +0100
Re: ZONE_NORMAL vs. ZONE_MOVABLE Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 07:40 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-03-16 00:10 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 10:00 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-03-16 18:40 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 18:50 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-17 14:40 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] rework memory hotplug onlining Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com> - 2017-03-21 15:20 +0100
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