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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] a few topics I'd like to discuss
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:51:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5122E8C0.4020404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130218145018.GJ4365@suse.de>

>> * Hugepage migration ? Currently, hugepage is not migratable and can?t
>> use pages in ZONE_MOVABLE.  It is not happy from point of CMA/hotplug
>> view.
>>
> 
> migrate_huge_page() ?
> 
> It's also possible to allocate hugetlbfs pages in ZONE_MOVABLE but must
> be enabled via /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable.

Oops. I missed that. Sorry for noise.

But but... I wonder why this knob is disabled by default. I don't think anybody
get a benefit form current default.


>> * Remove ZONE_MOVABLE ?Very long term goal. Maybe not suitable in this year.
> 
> Whatever about removing it totally I would like to see node memory hot-remove
> not depending on ZONE_MOVABLE.

Yup. I also think so. the first target is page table and icache/dcache because they
use a lot of memory. second step is to implement slab migration callback likes shrinker_slab. etc.
it is very long term story.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-17  6:44 [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] a few topics I'd like to discuss KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-17  7:28 ` Will Huck
2013-02-18 14:50 ` [Lsf-pc] " Mel Gorman
2013-02-19  2:51   ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2013-02-19 11:30     ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-19 21:44       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-20 11:03   ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-23  3:02     ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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