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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/14] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-remove
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:14:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269940489-5776-5-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269940489-5776-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>

CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA or on the architecture
being able to hot-remove memory. The main users of page migration such as
sys_move_pages(), sys_migrate_pages() and cpuset process migration are
only beneficial on NUMA so it makes sense.

As memory compaction will operate within a zone and is useful on both NUMA
and non-NUMA systems, this patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set if the
user selects CONFIG_COMPACTION as an option.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 9c61158..4fd75a0 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
 	default "4"
 
 #
+# support for memory compaction
+config COMPACTION
+	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
+	def_bool y
+	select MIGRATION
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLBFS && MMU
+	help
+	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
+
+#
 # support for page migration
 #
 config MIGRATION
@@ -180,9 +190,11 @@ config MIGRATION
 	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	help
 	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
-	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful for
-	  example on NUMA systems to put pages nearer to the processors accessing
-	  the page.
+	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful in
+	  two situations. The first is on NUMA systems to put pages nearer
+	  to the processors accessing. The second is when allocating huge
+	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
+	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
 
 config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
 	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
-- 
1.6.5

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30  9:14 [PATCH 0/14] Memory Compaction v6 Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 01/14] mm,migration: Take a reference to the anon_vma before migrating Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 02/14] mm,migration: Do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm: Share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migration Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 05/14] Export unusable free space index via /proc/unusable_index Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 06/14] Export fragmentation index via /proc/extfrag_index Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 07/14] Move definition for LRU isolation modes to a header Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 08/14] Memory compaction core Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 09/14] Add /proc trigger for memory compaction Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 10/14] Add /sys trigger for per-node " Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 11/14] Direct compact when a high-order allocation fails Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] Add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 13/14] Do not compact within a preferred zone after a compaction failure Mel Gorman
2010-03-30  9:14 ` [PATCH 14/14] mm,migration: Allow the migration of PageSwapCache pages Mel Gorman
2010-03-31  5:26   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-31 11:27     ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-31 23:57       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-01  2:39         ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-01  2:43     ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-01  3:01       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-01  4:44         ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-01  5:42           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-01 10:51             ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-01 17:36               ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-02  0:20                 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-02  8:51                   ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-02  0:21                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-02  8:52                   ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-01  9:30           ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-01 10:42             ` Minchan Kim
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-02 16:02 [PATCH 0/14] Memory Compaction v7 Mel Gorman
2010-04-02 16:02 ` [PATCH 04/14] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-remove Mel Gorman
2010-04-07  0:05   ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-07 10:22     ` Mel Gorman

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