Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752424AbbFRF6U (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 01:58:20 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55629 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751887AbbFRF6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 01:58:10 -0400 Message-ID: <55825DF0.9090903@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:58:08 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xishi Qiu CC: Andrew Morton , nao.horiguchi@gmail.com, Yinghai Lu , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , mingo@elte.hu, Xiexiuqi , Hanjun Guo , "Luck, Tony" , Linux MM , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm: mirrored memory support for page buddy allocations References: <55704A7E.5030507@huawei.com> <557FD5F8.10903@suse.cz> <557FDB9B.1090105@huawei.com> <557FF06A.3020000@suse.cz> <55821D85.3070208@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <55821D85.3070208@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2109 Lines: 59 On 18.6.2015 3:23, Xishi Qiu wrote: > On 2015/6/16 17:46, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> On 06/16/2015 10:17 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote: >>> On 2015/6/16 15:53, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/04/2015 02:54 PM, Xishi Qiu wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think add a new migratetype is btter and easier than a new zone, so I use >>>> >>>> If the mirrored memory is in a single reasonably compact (no large holes) range >>>> (per NUMA node) and won't dynamically change its size, then zone might be a >>>> better option. For one thing, it will still allow distinguishing movable and >>>> unmovable allocations within the mirrored memory. >>>> >>>> We had enough fun with MIGRATE_CMA and all kinds of checks it added to allocator >>>> hot paths, and even CMA is now considering moving to a separate zone. >>>> >>> >>> Hi, how about the problem of this case: >>> e.g. node 0: 0-4G(dma and dma32) >>> node 1: 4G-8G(normal), 8-12G(mirror), 12-16G(normal), >>> so more than one normal zone in a node? or normal zone just span the mirror zone? >> >> Normal zone can span the mirror zone just fine. However, it will result in zone >> scanners such as compaction to skip over the mirror zone inefficiently. Hmm... On the other hand, it would skip just as inefficiently over MIGRATE_MIRROR pageblocks within a Normal zone. Since migrating pages between MIGRATE_MIRROR and other types pageblocks would violate what the allocations requested. Having separate zone instead would allow compaction to run specifically on the zone and defragment movable allocations there (i.e. userspace pages if/when userspace requesting mirrored memory is supported). >> > > Hi Vlastimil, > > If there are many mirror regions in one node, then it will be many holes in the > normal zone, is this fine? Yeah, it doesn't matter how many holes there are. > Thanks, > Xishi Qiu > >> >> . >> > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/