From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linux-X86 <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Define _PAGE_NUMA with unused physical address bits PMD and PTE levels
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:36:46 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140407193646.GC23983@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5342FC0E.9080701@zytor.com>
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:27:10PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 11:28 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >
> > I had considered the soft-dirty tracking usage of the same bit. I thought I'd
> > be able to swizzle around it or a further worst case of having soft-dirty and
> > automatic NUMA balancing mutually exclusive. Unfortunately upon examination
> > it's not obvious how to have both of them share a bit and I suspect any
> > attempt to will break CRIU. In my current tree, NUMA_BALANCING cannot be
> > set if MEM_SOFT_DIRTY which is not particularly satisfactory. Next on the
> > list is examining if _PAGE_BIT_IOMAP can be used.
>
> Didn't we smoke the last user of _PAGE_BIT_IOMAP?
Seems so, at least for non-kernel pages (not considering this bit references in
xen code, which i simply don't know but i guess it's used for kernel pages only).
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-07 15:10 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Use an alternative to _PAGE_PROTNONE for _PAGE_NUMA Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: Require x86-64 for automatic NUMA balancing Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: Define _PAGE_NUMA with unused physical address bits PMD and PTE levels Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 15:32 ` David Vrabel
2014-04-07 15:49 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 16:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-04-07 18:28 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 19:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-04-07 19:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-07 19:36 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2014-04-07 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-07 21:25 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-08 4:04 ` Steven Noonan
2014-04-08 15:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-08 16:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-08 16:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-08 16:47 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-08 16:50 ` David Vrabel
2014-04-08 16:51 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-09 15:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-09 15:39 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-08 20:51 ` Steven Noonan
2014-04-08 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-09 15:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-09 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-08 9:31 ` David Vrabel
2014-04-07 21:19 ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 17:37 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: Allow FOLL_NUMA on FOLL_FORCE Mel Gorman
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