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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, osalvador@suse.de,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/spase: never partially remove memmap for early section
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200624085015.GG1320@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b2b722a-58de-4c6e-a04e-dc3516b1b8ab@redhat.com>

On Wed 24-06-20 10:41:18, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]
> But nothing actually breaks .... because *drummroll* we use huge pages in the vmemmap,
> so the partial depopulate will not actually depopulate anything here. Huge page is 2M,
> the memmap of 128MB sections is exactly 2MB == one hugepages. Trying to depopulate a
> fraction (e.g., 16MB) of that won't do anything.
> 
> 
> Now, forcing a CPU without hugepages - PSE (QEMU: "-cpu host,pse=off)", I can trigger
> via  ndctl create-namespace --force --reconfig=namespace0.0 --mode=devdax --size=16M

OK, now I am following! Thanks a lot. That is something to be mentioned
in the changelog. Small pages might be used if the hotplug happens on a
system with fragmented memory so this is something we do care about.

Thanks a lot David!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-24  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-23  9:42 [PATCH] mm/spase: never partially remove memmap for early section Wei Yang
2020-06-23 12:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-23 13:02   ` Wei Yang
2020-06-23 13:16     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-23 15:18 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-23 21:48   ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24  6:13   ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24 16:10     ` Dan Williams
2020-06-24 22:05       ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24 22:20         ` Dan Williams
2020-06-24 22:44           ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24 23:47             ` Dan Williams
2020-06-25  5:53               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-25 19:46                 ` Dan Williams
2020-06-25 22:29                   ` Wei Yang
2020-06-29  8:34                   ` Wei Yang
2020-06-29 22:13                     ` Dan Williams
2020-06-29 22:58                       ` Wei Yang
2020-06-30  7:16                         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-25 22:39                 ` Wei Yang
2020-06-26  4:59                   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-24  7:48   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-24  8:04     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-24  8:13     ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24  8:41       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-24  8:50         ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-06-24 22:27         ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24  0:21 ` Dan Williams
2020-06-24  1:11   ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24  1:47   ` Baoquan He
2020-06-24  2:14     ` Baoquan He
2020-06-24  3:46     ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24  3:52       ` Baoquan He
2020-06-24  3:56         ` Wei Yang
2020-06-24  8:51           ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-24 22:08             ` Wei Yang

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