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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Huaisheng HS1 Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
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Subject: Re: [External] [RFC PATCH v1 3/6] mm, zone_type: create ZONE_NVM and fill into GFP_ZONE_TABLE
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 21:43:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce3a6f37-3b13-0c35-6895-35156c7a290c@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HK2PR03MB1684653383FFEDAE9B41A548929A0@HK2PR03MB1684.apcprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On 05/07/2018 07:33 PM, Huaisheng HS1 Ye wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index c782e8f..5fe1f63 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -687,6 +687,22 @@ config ZONE_DEVICE
>  
> +config ZONE_NVM
> +	bool "Manage NVDIMM (pmem) by memory management (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> +	depends on NUMA && X86_64

Hi,
I'm curious why this depends on NUMA. Couldn't it be useful in non-NUMA
(i.e., UMA) configs?

Thanks.

> +	depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
> +	depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
> +	depends on !IA32_EMULATION
> +	default n
> +
> +	help
> +	  This option allows you to use memory management subsystem to manage
> +	  NVDIMM (pmem). With it mm can arrange NVDIMMs into real physical zones
> +	  like NORMAL and DMA32. That means buddy system and swap can be used
> +	  directly to NVDIMM zone. This feature is beneficial to recover
> +	  dirty pages from power fail or system crash by storing write cache
> +	  to NVDIMM zone.



-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-08  2:30 [RFC PATCH v1 0/6] use mm to manage NVDIMM (pmem) zone Huaisheng Ye
     [not found] ` <1525746628-114136-2-git-send-email-yehs1@lenovo.com>
2018-05-08  2:30   ` [External] [RFC PATCH v1 1/6] mm/memblock: Expand definition of flags to support NVDIMM Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-08  2:30 ` [RFC PATCH v1 4/6] arch/x86/kernel: mark NVDIMM regions from e820_table Huaisheng Ye
     [not found] ` <1525746628-114136-3-git-send-email-yehs1@lenovo.com>
2018-05-08  2:32   ` [External] [RFC PATCH v1 2/6] mm/page_alloc.c: get pfn range with flags of memblock Huaisheng HS1 Ye
     [not found] ` <1525746628-114136-4-git-send-email-yehs1@lenovo.com>
2018-05-08  2:33   ` [External] [RFC PATCH v1 3/6] mm, zone_type: create ZONE_NVM and fill into GFP_ZONE_TABLE Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-08  4:43     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2018-05-09  4:22       ` Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-09 11:47         ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-09 14:04           ` Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-09 20:56             ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-10  3:53               ` Huaisheng HS1 Ye
     [not found] ` <1525746628-114136-6-git-send-email-yehs1@lenovo.com>
2018-05-08  2:34   ` [External] [RFC PATCH v1 5/6] mm: get zone spanned pages separately for DRAM and NVDIMM Huaisheng HS1 Ye
     [not found] ` <1525746628-114136-7-git-send-email-yehs1@lenovo.com>
2018-05-08  2:35   ` [External] [RFC PATCH v1 6/6] arch/x86/mm: create page table mapping for DRAM and NVDIMM both Huaisheng HS1 Ye
2018-05-10  7:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/6] use mm to manage NVDIMM (pmem) zone Michal Hocko
2018-05-10  8:41   ` Michal Hocko

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