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Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2019 18:55:42 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/12] mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions
 of a section at boot
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 02:57:59PM -0700, 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>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>

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Oscar Salvador
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