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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	haicheng.li@intel.com,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] slab: add memory hotplug support
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:17:03 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003021303220.18137@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100302125306.GD19208@basil.fritz.box>

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Andi Kleen wrote:

> The patch looks far more complicated than my simple fix.
> 
> Is more complicated now better?
> 

If you still believe these are "fixes," then perhaps you don't fully 
understand the issue: slab completely lacked memory hotplug support when a 
node is either being onlined or offlined that do not have hotadded or 
hotremoved cpus.  It's as simple as that.

To be fair, my patch may appear more complex because it implements full 
memory hotplug support so that the nodelists are properly drained and 
freed when the same memory regions you onlined for memory hot-add are now 
offlined.  Notice, also, how it touches no other slab code as implementing 
new support for something shouldn't.  There is no need for additional 
hacks to be added in other slab code if you properly allocate and 
initialize the nodelists for the memory being added before it is available 
for use by the kernel.

If you'd test my patch out on your setup, that would be very helpful.  I 
can address any additional issues that you may undercover if you post the 
oops while doing either memory online or offline.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-11 20:53 [PATCH] [0/4] Update slab memory hotplug series Andi Kleen
2010-02-11 20:54 ` [PATCH] [1/4] SLAB: Handle node-not-up case in fallback_alloc() v2 Andi Kleen
2010-02-11 21:41   ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 21:55     ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15  6:04   ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-15 10:07     ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15 10:22       ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-11 20:54 ` [PATCH] [2/4] SLAB: Separate node initialization into separate function Andi Kleen
2010-02-11 21:44   ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 20:54 ` [PATCH] [3/4] SLAB: Set up the l3 lists for the memory of freshly added memory v2 Andi Kleen
2010-02-11 21:45   ` David Rientjes
2010-02-15  6:06     ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-15 21:47       ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16 14:04         ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-16 20:45           ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-11 20:54 ` [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap Andi Kleen
2010-02-11 21:45   ` David Rientjes
2010-02-15  6:15   ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-15 10:32     ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15 10:41       ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-15 10:52         ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15 11:01           ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-15 15:30             ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-19 18:22             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-20  9:01               ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-22 10:53                 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-22 14:31                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-22 16:11                     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-22 20:20                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-24 15:49                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-25  7:26                   ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-25  8:01                     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-25 18:30                       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-25 21:45                         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-25 22:31                           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-26 10:45                             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-26 11:43                               ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-26 12:35                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-26 14:08                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-26  1:09                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-26 11:41                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-26 15:04                           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-26 15:05                             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-26 15:59                               ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-26 15:57                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-26 17:24                               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-26 17:31                                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-01  1:59                                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-01 10:27                                     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-27  0:01                                 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-01 10:24                                   ` [patch] slab: add memory hotplug support David Rientjes
2010-03-02  5:53                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-02 20:20                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-02 21:03                                         ` David Rientjes
2010-03-03  1:28                                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-03  2:39                                           ` David Rientjes
2010-03-03  2:51                                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-02 12:53                                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-02 15:04                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-03 14:34                                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-03 15:46                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-02 21:17                                       ` David Rientjes [this message]
2010-03-05  6:20                                     ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-05 12:47                                       ` Anca Emanuel
2010-03-05 13:58                                         ` Anca Emanuel
2010-03-05 14:11                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-08  3:06                                           ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-08  2:58                                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-08 23:19                                       ` David Rientjes
2010-03-09 13:46                                         ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-22 17:28                                           ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-22 21:12                                             ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-28  2:13                                           ` David Rientjes
2010-03-28  2:40                                             ` [patch v2] " David Rientjes
2010-03-30  9:01                                               ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-30 16:43                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-04 20:45                                                   ` David Rientjes
2010-04-07 16:29                                               ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-25 18:34                     ` [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap Christoph Lameter
2010-02-25 18:46                       ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-25 19:19                         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-02 12:55                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-19 18:22       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-22 10:57         ` Pekka Enberg
2010-02-13 10:24 ` [PATCH] [0/4] Update slab memory hotplug series Pekka Enberg

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