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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] handle memoryless nodes more appropriately
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On 2023/2/16 00:36, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 15-02-23 23:24:10, Qi Zheng wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently, in the process of initialization or offline memory, memoryless
>> nodes will still be built into the fallback list of itself or other nodes.
>>
>> This is not what we expected, so this patch series removes memoryless
>> nodes from the fallback list entirely.
>>
>> Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Hi Michal,

>
> This is a tricky area full of surprises and it is really easy to

Would you mind giving an example of a "new problem"?

> introduce new problems. What kind of problem/issue are you trying to
> solve/handle by these changes?

IIUC, I think there are two reasons:

Firstly, as mentioned in commit message, the memoryless node has no
memory to allocate (If it can be allocated, it may also cause the panic
I mentioned in [1]), so we should not continue to traverse it when
allocating memory at runtime, which will have a certain overhead.

Secondly, from the perspective of semantic correctness, why do we remove
the memoryless node from the fallback list of other normal nodes
(N_MEMORY), but not from its own fallback list (PATCH[1/2])? Why should
an upcoming memoryless node continue exist in the fallback list of
itself and other normal nodes (PATCH[2/2])?

Please let me know if I missed something.


[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230212110305.93670-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

Thanks,
Qi

>

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