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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC:Patch: 000/008](memory hotplug) rough idea of pgdat removing
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:08:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489888FB.9060401@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080805111450.GE20243@csn.ul.ie>

Mel Gorman wrote:

> Maybe I am missing something, but what is wrong with stop_machine during
> memory hot-remove?

Reclaim can sleep while going down a zonelist. There would need to be some
form of synchronization to avoid removing a zone from the zonelist that we are
just scanning.

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31 11:50 Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 11:55 ` [RFC:Patch: 001/008](memory hotplug) change parameter from pointer of zonelist to node id Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 11:56 ` [RFC:Patch: 002/008](memory hotplug) pgdat_remove_read_lock/unlock Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 11:58 ` [RFC:Patch: 003/008](memory hotplug) check node online in __alloc_pages Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 12:00 ` [RFC:Patch: 004/008](memory hotplug) Use lock for for_each_online_node Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 12:01 ` [RFC:Patch: 005/008](memory hotplug) check node online before NODE_DATA and so on Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 12:02 ` [RFC:Patch: 006/008](memory hotplug) kswapd_stop() definition Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 12:03 ` [RFC:Patch: 007/008](memory hotplug) callback routine for mempolicy Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 12:04 ` [RFC:Patch: 008/008](memory hotplug) remove_pgdat() function Yasunori Goto
2008-09-06 14:21   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-08  3:07     ` Yasunori Goto
2008-07-31 14:04 ` [RFC:Patch: 000/008](memory hotplug) rough idea of pgdat removing Christoph Lameter
2008-08-01  9:42   ` Yasunori Goto
2008-08-01 13:51     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-02  0:16       ` Yasunori Goto
2008-08-04 13:25         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-05  6:39           ` Yasunori Goto
2008-08-05 11:14             ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-05 17:08               ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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