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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <72066bef-866a-c2a4-d536-4212c3344045@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 9CFE43D663 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 100.00] X-Rspamd-Server: rspam01 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 04.06.20 22:00, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 6/4/20 11:12 AM, Daniel Jordan wrote: >>> E.g., on powerpc that's 16MB so they have *a lot* of memory blocks. >>> That's why that's not papering over the problem. Increasing the memor= y >>> block size isn't always the answer. >> Ok. If you don't mind, what's the purpose of hotplugging at that gran= ularity? >> I'm simply curious. >=20 > FWIW, the 128MB on x86 came from the original sparsemem/hotplug > implementation. It was the size of the smallest DIMM that my server > system at the time would take. ppc64's huge page size was and is 16MB > and that's also the granularity with which hypervisors did hot-add way > back then. I'm not actually sure what they do now. >=20 > My belief at the time was that the section size would grow over time as > DIMMs and hotplug units grew. I was young and naive. :) BTW, I recently studied your old hotplug papers and they are highly appreciated :) >=20 > I actually can't think of anything that's *keeping* it at 128MB on x86 > though. We don't, for instance, require a whole section to be > pfn_valid(). Well, sub-section hotadd is only done for vmemmap and we only use it for !(memory block devices) stuff, a.k.a. ZONE_DEVICE. IIRC, sub-section hotadd works in granularity of 2M. AFAIK: - The lower limit for a section is MAX_ORDER - 1 / pageblock_order - The smaller the section, the more bits are wasted to store the section number in page->flags for page_to_pfn() (!vmemmap IIRC) - The smaller the section, the bigger the section array(s) - We want to make sure the section memmap always spans full pages (IIRC, not always the case e.g., arm64 with 256k page size. But arm64 is weird either way - 512MB (transparent) huge pages with 64k base pages ...) Changing the section size to get rid of sub-section memory hotadd does not seem to be easily possible. I assume we don't want to create memory block devices for something as small as current sub-section memory hotadd size (e.g., 2MB). So having significantly smaller sections might not make too much sense and your initial section size might have been a very good, initial pick :) --=20 Thanks, David / dhildenb