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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/7] x86, gfp: Cache best near node for memory allocation.
Hi, tj,

On 09/27/2015 01:53 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Tang.
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 05:31:07PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
>>>> @@ -307,13 +307,19 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>>>> if (nid < 0)
>>>> nid = numa_node_id();
>>>> + if (!node_online(nid))
>>>> + nid = get_near_online_node(nid);
>>>> +
>>>> return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order, node_zonelist(nid, gfp_mask));
>>>> }
>>> Why not just update node_data[]->node_zonelist in the first place?
>> zonelist will be rebuilt in __offline_pages() when the zone is not populated
>> any more.
>>
>> Here, getting the best near online node is for those cpus on memory-less
>> nodes.
>>
>> In the original code, if nid is NUMA_NO_NODE, the node the current cpu
>> resides in
>> will be chosen. And if the node is memory-less node, the cpu will be mapped
>> to its
>> best near online node.
>>
>> But this patch-set will map the cpu to its original node, so numa_node_id()
>> may return
>> a memory-less node to allocator. And then memory allocation may fail.
> Correct me if I'm wrong but the zonelist dictates which memory areas
> the page allocator is gonna try to from, right? What I'm wondering is
> why we aren't handling memory-less nodes by simply updating their
> zonelists. I mean, if, say, node 2 is memory-less, its zonelist can
> simply point to zones from other nodes, right? What am I missing
> here?

Oh, yes, you are right. But I remember some time ago, Liu, Jiang has or was
going to handle memory less node like this in his patch:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/16/130

BTW, to Liu Jiang, how is your patches going on ?

Thanks.

>
> Thanks.
>



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