Re: [PATCH v1] drivers/base/memory.c: Don't store end_section_nr in memory blocks

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Wed 31-07-19 16:43:58, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 31.07.19 16:37, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 31-07-19 16:21:46, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> Thinking about it some more, I believe that we can reasonably provide
> >>> both APIs controlable by a command line parameter for backwards
> >>> compatibility. It is the hotplug code to control sysfs APIs.  E.g.
> >>> create one sysfs entry per add_memory_resource for the new semantic.
> >>
> >> Yeah, but the real question is: who needs it. I can only think about
> >> some DIMM scenarios (some, not all). I would be interested in more use
> >> cases. Of course, to provide and maintain two APIs we need a good reason.
> > 
> > Well, my 3TB machine that has 7 movable nodes could really go with less
> > than
> > $ find /sys/devices/system/memory -name "memory*" | wc -l
> > 1729>
> 
> The question is if it would be sufficient to increase the memory block
> size even further for these kinds of systems (e.g., via a boot parameter
> - I think we have that on uv systems) instead of having blocks of
> different sizes. Say, 128GB blocks because you're not going to hotplug
> 128MB DIMMs into such a system - at least that's my guess ;)

The system has
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 [mem 0x10000000000-0x17fffffffff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 2 PXM 2 [mem 0x80000000000-0x87fffffffff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 3 PXM 3 [mem 0x90000000000-0x97fffffffff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 4 PXM 4 [mem 0x100000000000-0x107fffffffff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 5 PXM 5 [mem 0x110000000000-0x117fffffffff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 6 PXM 6 [mem 0x180000000000-0x183fffffffff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: SRAT: Node 7 PXM 7 [mem 0x190000000000-0x191fffffffff]

hotplugable memory. I would love to have those 7 memory blocks to work
with. Any smaller grained split is just not helping as the platform will
not be able to hotremove it anyway.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs