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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm: Let sparse_{add,remove}_one_section receive a node_id
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:36:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540F48BA.2090304@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540F20AB.4000404@plexistor.com>

On 09/09/2014 08:45 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> This is for add_persistent_memory that will want a section of pages
> allocated but without any zone associated. This is because belonging
> to a zone will give the memory to the page allocators, but
> persistent_memory belongs to a block device, and is not available for
> regular volatile usage.

I don't think we should be taking patches like this in to the kernel
until we've seen the other side of it.  Where is the page allocator code
which will see a page belonging to no zone?  Am I missing it in this set?

I see about 80 or so calls to page_zone() in the kernel.  How will a
zone-less page look to all of these sites?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1409173922-7484-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
2014-09-09 15:37 ` [PATCH 0/9] pmem: Fixes and farther development (mm: add_persistent_memory) Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-09 15:45   ` [PATCH 5/9] mm: Let sparse_{add,remove}_one_section receive a node_id Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-09 18:36     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-09-10 10:07       ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-10 16:10         ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-10 17:25           ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-10 18:28             ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-11  8:39               ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-11 17:07                 ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-14  9:36                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-09 15:47   ` [PATCH 6/9] mm: New add_persistent_memory/remove_persistent_memory Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-09 15:48   ` [PATCH 7/9] pmem: Add support for page structs Boaz Harrosh

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