From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
To: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:05:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363817148-rlt5mp5n-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51490AD8.9050308@gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:03:20AM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
> Hi Naoya,
> On 02/22/2013 03:41 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> >Currently we can't offline memory blocks which contain hugepages because
> >a hugepage is considered as an unmovable page. But now with this patch
> >series, a hugepage has become movable, so by using hugepage migration we
> >can offline such memory blocks.
> >
> >What's different from other users of hugepage migration is that we need
> >to decompose all the hugepages inside the target memory block into free
>
> For other hugepage migration users, hugepage should be freed to
> hugepage_freelists after migration, but why I don't see any codes do
> this?
The source hugepages which are migrated by NUMA related system calls
(migrate_pages(2), move_pages(2), and mbind(2)) are still useable,
so we simply free them into free hugepage pool.
OTOH, the source hugepages migrated by memory hotremove should not be
reusable, because users of memory hotremove want to remove the memory
from the system. So we need to free such hugepages forcibly into the
buddy pages, otherwise memory offining doesn't work.
Thanks,
Naoya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-20 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-21 19:41 [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] migrate: add migrate_entry_wait_huge() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 14:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 23:57 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:53 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:36 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-04 4:57 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] migrate: make core migration code aware of hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:22 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-18 15:33 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 7:25 ` Chen Gong
2013-02-27 17:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 17:57 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] migrate: clean up migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] migrate: enable migrate_pages() to migrate hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:40 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 7:11 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 6:12 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 7:41 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 0:31 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:59 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-21 0:06 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] migrate: enable move_pages() " Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] mbind: enable mbind() " Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-23 7:05 ` Hillf Danton
2013-02-25 16:57 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 7:36 ` Chen Gong
2013-02-27 17:16 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 16:07 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 3:55 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 7:57 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 1:03 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 22:05 ` Naoya Horiguchi [this message]
2013-03-20 23:55 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-28 6:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-28 18:16 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 23:43 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:35 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:49 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-21 12:56 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-21 23:46 ` Simon Jeons
[not found] ` <20130322081532.GC31457@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2013-04-05 1:14 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 8:08 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-05 9:00 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 9:30 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-07 0:32 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-07 14:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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