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

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

(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?
 
> 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
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.