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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/12] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-remove
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265976059-7459-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265976059-7459-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>

CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA or on the architecture
being able to hot-remove memory. The main users of page migration such as
sys_move_pages(), sys_migrate_pages() and cpuset process migration are
only beneficial on NUMA so it makes sense.

As memory compaction will operate within a zone and is useful on both NUMA
and non-NUMA systems, this patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set if the
user selects CONFIG_COMPACTION as an option.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/Kconfig |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 17b8947..b1c2781 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -168,17 +168,29 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
 	default "4"
 
 #
+# support for memory compaction
+config COMPACTION
+	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
+	def_bool y
+	select MIGRATION
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLBFS
+	help
+	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
+
+#
 # support for page migration
 #
 config MIGRATION
 	bool "Page migration"
 	def_bool y
-	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION
 	help
 	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
-	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful for
-	  example on NUMA systems to put pages nearer to the processors accessing
-	  the page.
+	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
+	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
+	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
+	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
+	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
 
 config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
 	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
-- 
1.6.5

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-12 12:00 [PATCH 0/12] Memory Compaction v2r12 Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 01/12] mm: Document /proc/pagetypeinfo Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 15:54   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-16  7:05   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-12 12:00 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2010-02-16 17:43   ` [PATCH 02/12] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-remove Rik van Riel
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 03/12] Export unusable free space index via /proc/pagetypeinfo Mel Gorman
2010-02-16  7:03   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  8:36     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-16  8:41       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  8:50         ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-16 18:28   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-18 15:23   ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-18 15:32     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 04/12] Export fragmentation " Mel Gorman
2010-02-16  7:59   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  8:41     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-16  8:49       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-17  1:44   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-18 15:37   ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 05/12] Memory compaction core Mel Gorman
2010-02-16  8:31   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  8:48     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-16 14:55       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-16 14:59         ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-18 19:37           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-18 21:35             ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-19  0:04             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-17 13:29     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-17 15:45       ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-18 16:58   ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-18 17:34     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-19  1:21       ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-19 14:33         ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 06/12] Add /proc trigger for memory compaction Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 18:34   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-02-12 18:38     ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-17 16:30   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-18 19:51   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-19  1:56   ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 07/12] Add /sys trigger for per-node " Mel Gorman
2010-02-17 16:30   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 08/12] Direct compact when a high-order allocation fails Mel Gorman
2010-02-18  3:57   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 09/12] Do not compact within a preferred zone after a compaction failure Mel Gorman
2010-02-18  4:09   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 10/12] mm: Check for an empty VMA list in rmap_walk_anon Mel Gorman
2010-02-17 18:22   ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 11/12] mm: Take the RCU read lock " Mel Gorman
2010-02-12 12:00 ` [PATCH 12/12] mm: Check the anon_vma is still valid in rmap_walk_anon() Mel Gorman

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