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Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 18:35:34 +0530
From:   Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Keep memoryless cpuless node 0
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* Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> [2020-05-02 23:05:28]:

> On Fri, 1 May 2020, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> 
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -116,8 +116,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(latent_entropy);
> >   */
> >  nodemask_t node_states[NR_NODE_STATES] __read_mostly = {
> >  	[N_POSSIBLE] = NODE_MASK_ALL,
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +	[N_ONLINE] = NODE_MASK_NONE,
> 
> Hmmm.... I would have expected that you would have added something early
> in boot that would mark the current node (whatever is is) online instead?

Do correct me, but these are structure initialization in page_alloc.c
Wouldn't these happen much before the numa initialization happens?
I think we are already marking nodes as online as soon as we detect the
nodes.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju