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@ 2007-06-14  6:56 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  2007-06-14  6:59 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [1/6] migration by kernel KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki @ 2007-06-14  6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mm; +Cc: mel, y-goto, clameter, hugh, kamezawa.hiroyu

Hi,

This is a memory unplug base patch set v5 against 2.6.22-rc4-mm2
for review and testers.

Plan:
Maybe this will be the last post before OLS. I'd like to remove [RFC} 
and post this set as [PATCH] in July. If you have any concerns, please tell me.

Changelog V4->V5
 - reflected commetns on v4. no big changes in logic.
 - anon_vma_hold/rel functions are removed. Uses more direct way.
 - restructured page isolation patchset. maybe simpler than previous ones.
 - use pageblock_nr_pages.
 - adjusted other patches 
 

We tested this patch on ia64/NUMA.

How to use
 - user kernelcore=XXX boot option to create ZONE_MOVABLE.
   Memory unplug itself can work without ZONE_MOVABLE (if you allow retrying..)
   but it will be better to use kernelcore= if your section size is big.
  
 - After bootup, execute following.
     # echo "offline" > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
 - you can push back offlined memory by following
     # echo "online" > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state

TODO
 - more tests.
 - Now, there is no check around ZONE_MOVABLE and bootmem.
   I hope bootmem can treat kernelcore=....
 - add better logic to allocate memory for migration. 
   Problems here are that we have no way to rememeber "How page is allocated".
   cpusets info and policy info is in "task_struct", which cannot be accessed
   from a page struct..maybe what we can do is (1) add more information to page 
   or (2) use just a simple way. or (3) some magical technique...
 - node hotplug support
 - Should make i386/x86-64/powerpc interface code. But not yet 
 - remove memmap after memory unplug. (for sparsemem)

Thanks,
-Kame

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2007-06-14  6:56 [RFC] memory unplug v5 [0/6] intro KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  6:59 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [1/6] migration by kernel KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:01   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14  7:11     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:22       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14  7:41         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:47           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14  8:29             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14 14:19               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 16:02                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14 16:12                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 16:15                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14 18:04                       ` Mel Gorman
2007-06-14 22:31                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15  9:43                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15  9:53                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15 14:41                             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15 15:36                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:00 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [2/6] isolate lru page race fix KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:01 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [3/6] walk memory resources assist function KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15  6:05   ` David Rientjes
2007-06-15  6:11     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:03 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [4/6] page isolation KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15 15:46   ` Dave Hansen
2007-06-15 16:59     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-14  7:04 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [5/6] page unplug KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15  6:04   ` David Rientjes
2007-06-15  6:12     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15 14:35     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15 14:40       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-15 15:52   ` Dave Hansen
2007-06-15 17:03     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-15 21:09       ` Dave Hansen
2007-06-14  7:06 ` [RFC] memory unplug v5 [6/6] ia64 interface KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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