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@ 2007-05-22  6:58 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  2007-05-22  7:01 ` [Patch] memory unplug v3 [1/4] page isolation KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki @ 2007-05-22  6:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux-MM; +Cc: mel, y-goto, clameter

This is memory unplug base patcheset v3 against 2.6.22-rc1-mm1.
just for review and for testers.

Changelog V2->V3
 - Using Meln's page grouping method. this simplifies the whole patch set.
   MIGRATE_ISOLATE migratetype is added.
 - restructured patch series.
 - rebased to 2.6.22-rc1-mm1.
 - page is isolated ASAP patch is removed.
 - several fixes.

We tested this patch on ia64/NUMA and ia64/SMP. 

How to use
 - user kernelcore=XXX boot option to create ZONE_MOVABLE.
   Memory unplug itself can work without ZONE_MOVABLE 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
 - remove memmap after memory unplug. (for sparsemem)
 - more tests and find - page which cannot be freed -
 - Now, there is no check around ZONE_MOVABLE and bootmem.
   I hope bootmem can treat kernelcore=....
 - add better logic to allocate memory for migration.
 - speed up under heavy workload.
 - node hotplug support
 - Should make i386/x86-64/powerpc interface code. But not yet 

If you have a request to add interface for test, please tell me.

4 patches are there
[1] page isolation patch
[2] migration by kernel patch
[3] page hot removal patch
[4] ia64 interface patch


Thanks,
-Kame

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2007-05-22  6:58 [Patch] memory unplug v3 [0/4] KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22  7:01 ` [Patch] memory unplug v3 [1/4] page isolation KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 10:19   ` Mel Gorman
2007-05-22 11:01     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 18:38   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23  1:41     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22  7:04 ` [Patch] memory unplug v3 [2/4] migration by kernel KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 18:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23  1:45     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-23  1:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23  2:09         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-23 19:14     ` Mel Gorman
2007-05-25  7:43       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22  7:07 ` [Patch] memory unplug v3 [3/4] page removal KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 18:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23  1:50     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22  7:08 ` [Patch] memory unplug v3 [4/4] ia64 interface KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 18:34 ` [Patch] memory unplug v3 [0/4] Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23  1:59   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-23  2:09     ` Christoph Lameter

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