Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: don't allocate page from memoryless nodes

[Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>]

On 2023/2/14 19:44, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> (added x86 folks)
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:29:42PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 14.02.23 12:26, Qi Zheng wrote:
>>> On 2023/2/14 19:22, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>
>>>> TBH, this is the first time I hear of NODE_MIN_SIZE and it seems to be a
>>>> pretty x86 specific thing.
>>>>
>>>> Are we sure we want to get NODE_MIN_SIZE involved?
>>>
>>> Maybe add an arch_xxx() to handle it?
>>
>> I still haven't figured out what we want to achieve with NODE_MIN_SIZE at
>> all. It smells like an arch-specific hack looking at
>>
>> "Don't confuse VM with a node that doesn't have the minimum amount of
>> memory"
>>
>> Why shouldn't mm-core deal with that?
> 
> Well, a node with <4M RAM is not very useful and bears all the overhead of
> an extra live node.
> 
> But, hey, why won't we just drop that '< NODE_MIN_SIZE' and let people with
> weird HW configurations just live with this?

Just to sum up, whether we deal with '< NODE_MIN_SIZE' or not, IIUC, the
following two should be modified:

1) we should skip memoryless nodes completely in find_next_best_node():

@@ -6382,8 +6378,11 @@ int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t
*used_node_mask)
          int min_val = INT_MAX;
          int best_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;

-       /* Use the local node if we haven't already */
-       if (!node_isset(node, *used_node_mask)) {
+       /*
+        * Use the local node if we haven't already. But for memoryless
local
+        * node, we should skip it and fallback to other nodes.
+        */
+       if (!node_isset(node, *used_node_mask) && node_state(node,
N_MEMORY)) {
                  node_set(node, *used_node_mask);
                  return node;
          }

This also fixes the bug mentioned in commit message.

2) we should call node_states_clear_node() before build_all_zonelists()
in offline_pages():

@@ -1931,12 +1931,12 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, 
unsigned long nr_pages,
         /* reinitialise watermarks and update pcp limits */
         init_per_zone_wmark_min();

+       node_states_clear_node(node, &arg);
         if (!populated_zone(zone)) {
                 zone_pcp_reset(zone);
                 build_all_zonelists(NULL);
         }

-       node_states_clear_node(node, &arg);
         if (arg.status_change_nid >= 0) {
                 kcompactd_stop(node);
                 kswapd_stop(node);

Otherwise, the node whose N_MEMORY state is about to be cleared will 
still be established in the fallback list of other nodes.

Right?

Thanks,
Qi

>   
>> I'd appreciate an explanation of the bigger picture, what the issue is and
>> what the approach to solve it is (including memory onlining/offlining).
>>
>> -- 
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David / dhildenb
>>
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Qi