From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH part2 v2 0/8] Arrange hotpluggable memory as ZONE_MOVABLE
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:49:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <525C58D3.1060705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQUQaB2RAPyNjW8vF1uEigCEaxVFH1PBs=xgYNRRCpZPuw@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/14/2013 01:42 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> However, I don't understand how we can avoid #2, given that it is
>> fundamentally a sysadmin-driven tradeoff between performance and
>> reliability.
>
> If we make all numa systems support nodes hot-remove logically.
> like we boot system with node0, and hot add other nodes one by one,
> we should hot remove them later.
>
No, it doesn't work that way for memory. You can't do nonmovable
allocations from a node that you may need to yank, unless you can
migrate that memory node transparently (which hardware can do.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-12 6:00 [PATCH part2 v2 0/8] Arrange hotpluggable memory as ZONE_MOVABLE Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:00 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:00 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:03 ` [PATCH part2 v2 1/8] x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:03 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:03 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:04 ` [PATCH part2 v2 2/8] memblock, numa: Introduce flag into memblock Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:04 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:04 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:05 ` [PATCH part2 v2 3/8] memblock, mem_hotplug: Introduce MEMBLOCK_HOTPLUG flag to mark hotpluggable regions Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:05 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:05 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:06 ` [PATCH part2 v2 4/8] memblock: Make memblock_set_node() support different memblock_type Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:06 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:06 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:07 ` [PATCH part2 v2 5/8] acpi, numa, mem_hotplug: Mark hotpluggable memory in memblock Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:07 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:07 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:08 ` [PATCH part2 v2 6/8] acpi, numa, mem_hotplug: Mark all nodes the kernel resides un-hotpluggable Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:08 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:08 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:09 ` [PATCH part2 v2 7/8] memblock, mem_hotplug: Make memblock skip hotpluggable regions if needed Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:09 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:09 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:09 ` [PATCH part2 v2 8/8] x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Make movable_node have higher priority Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:09 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-12 6:09 ` Zhang Yanfei
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2013-10-14 15:34 ` [PATCH part2 v2 0/8] Arrange hotpluggable memory as ZONE_MOVABLE Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-14 19:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-10-14 20:04 ` Tejun Heo
2013-10-14 20:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-10-14 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-15 6:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-16 7:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-14 20:55 ` Tejun Heo
2013-10-15 1:40 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-10-15 2:25 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-10-15 13:16 ` Tejun Heo
2013-10-14 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-14 20:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-10-14 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-13 13:50 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-11-13 13:50 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-11-19 9:56 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-11-19 9:56 ` Zhang Yanfei
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