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From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 07/31] mm: Add Dynamic NUMA Kconfig.
Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 17:00:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367539263-19999-8-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367539263-19999-1-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

We need to add some functionality for use by Dynamic NUMA to pieces of
mm/, so provide the Kconfig prior to adding actual Dynamic NUMA
functionality. For details on Dynamic NUMA, see te later patch (which
adds baseline functionality):

 "mm: add memlayout & dnuma to track pfn->nid & transplant pages between nodes"
---
 mm/Kconfig | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index e742d06..bfbe300 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -169,6 +169,30 @@ config MOVABLE_NODE
 config HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
 	def_bool n
 
+config DYNAMIC_NUMA
+	bool "Dynamic Numa: Allow NUMA layout to change after boot time"
+	depends on NUMA
+	depends on !DISCONTIGMEM
+	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG # locking + mem_online_node().
+	help
+	 Dynamic Numa (DNUMA) allows the movement of pages between NUMA nodes at
+	 run time.
+
+	 Typically, this is used on systems running under a hypervisor which
+	 may move the running VM based on the hypervisors needs. On such a
+	 system, this config option enables Linux to update it's knowledge of
+	 the memory layout.
+
+	 If the feature is not used but is enabled, there is a very small
+	 amount of overhead (an additional pageflag check) is added to all page frees.
+
+	 This is only useful if you enable some of the additional options to
+	 allow modifications of the numa memory layout (either through hypervisor events
+	 or a userspace interface).
+
+	 Choose Y if you have are running linux under a hypervisor that uses
+	 this feature, otherwise choose N if unsure.
+
 # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
-- 
1.8.2.2

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-03  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-03  0:00 [RFC PATCH v3 00/31] Dynamic NUMA: Runtime NUMA memory layout reconfiguration Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 01/31] rbtree: add postorder iteration functions Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 02/31] rbtree: add rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() helper Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 03/31] mm/memory_hotplug: factor out zone+pgdat growth Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 04/31] memory_hotplug: export ensure_zone_is_initialized() in mm/internal.h Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 05/31] mm/memory_hotplug: use {pgdat,zone}_is_empty() when resizing zones & pgdats Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 06/31] mm: add nid_zone() helper Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` Cody P Schafer [this message]
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/31] page_alloc: add return_pages_to_zone() when DYNAMIC_NUMA is enabled Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 09/31] page_alloc: in move_freepages(), skip pages instead of VM_BUG on node differences Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/31] page_alloc: when dynamic numa is enabled, don't check that all pages in a block belong to the same zone Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 11/31] page-flags dnuma: reserve a pageflag for determining if a page needs a node lookup Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 12/31] memory_hotplug: factor out locks in mem_online_cpu() Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 13/31] mm: add memlayout & dnuma to track pfn->nid & transplant pages between nodes Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 14/31] mm: memlayout+dnuma: add debugfs interface Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 15/31] drivers/base/memory.c: alphabetize headers Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 16/31] drivers/base/node,memory: rename function to match interface Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 17/31] drivers/base/node: rename unregister_mem_blk_under_nodes() to be more acurate Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 18/31] drivers/base/node: add unregister_mem_block_under_nodes() Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 19/31] mm: memory,memlayout: add refresh_memory_blocks() for Dynamic NUMA Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 20/31] page_alloc: use dnuma to transplant newly freed pages in __free_pages_ok() Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 21/31] page_alloc: use dnuma to transplant newly freed pages in free_hot_cold_page() Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 22/31] page_alloc: transplant pages that are being flushed from the per-cpu lists Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 23/31] x86: memlayout: add a arch specific inital memlayout setter Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 24/31] init/main: call memlayout_global_init() in start_kernel() Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 25/31] dnuma: memlayout: add memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() for memory_hotplug Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 26/31] x86/mm/numa: when dnuma is enabled, use memlayout to handle memory hotplug's physaddr_to_nid Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 27/31] mm/memory_hotplug: VM_BUG if nid is too large Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:01 ` [RFC PATCH v3 28/31] mm/page_alloc: in page_outside_zone_boundaries(), avoid premature decisions Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:01 ` [RFC PATCH v3 29/31] mm/page_alloc: make pr_err() in page_outside_zone_boundaries() more useful Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:01 ` [RFC PATCH v3 30/31] mm/page_alloc: use manage_pages instead of present pages when calculating default_zonelist_order() Cody P Schafer
2013-05-03  0:01 ` [RFC PATCH v3 31/31] mm: add a early_param "extra_nr_node_ids" to increase nr_node_ids above the minimum by a percentage Cody P Schafer

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