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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: remove zone restrictions
On Fri 30-06-17 11:55:45, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 30-06-17 17:39:56, Wei Yang wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > > yes and to be honest I do not plan to fix it unless somebody has a real
> > > life usecase for it. Now that we allow explicit onlininig type anywhere
> > > it seems like a reasonable behavior and this will allow us to remove
> > > quite some code which is always a good deal wrt longterm maintenance.
> > >
> >
> > hmm... the statistics displayed in /proc/zoneinfo would be meaningless
> > for zone_normal and zone_movable.
>
> Why would they be meaningless? Counters will always reflect the actual
> use - if not then it is a bug. And wrt to zone description what is
> meaningless about
> memory34/valid_zones:Normal
> memory35/valid_zones:Normal Movable
> memory36/valid_zones:Movable
> memory37/valid_zones:Movable Normal
> memory38/valid_zones:Movable Normal
> memory39/valid_zones:Movable Normal
> memory40/valid_zones:Normal
> memory41/valid_zones:Movable
>
> And
> Node 1, zone Normal
> pages free 65465
> min 156
> low 221
> high 286
> spanned 229376
> present 65536
> managed 65536
> [...]
> start_pfn: 1114112
> Node 1, zone Movable
> pages free 65443
> min 156
> low 221
> high 286
> spanned 196608
> present 65536
> managed 65536
> [...]
> start_pfn: 1179648
>
> ranges are clearly defined as [start_pfn, start_pfn+managed] and managed

errr, this should be [start_pfn, start_pfn + spanned] of course.

> matches the number of onlined pages (256MB).

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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