Re: [PATCH 0/1] memory offline issues with hugepage size > memory block size

Michal Hocko
2016-09-21T19:22:06Z

On Wed 21-09-16 11:27:48, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 09/21/2016 11:20 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I would even question the per page block offlining itself. Why would
> > anybody want to offline few blocks rather than the whole node? What is
> > the usecase here?
>
> The original reason was so that you could remove a DIMM or a riser card
> full of DIMMs, which are certainly a subset of a node.

OK, I see, thanks for the clarification! I was always thinking more in
node rather than physical memory range hot-remove. I do agree that it
makes sense to free the whole gigantic huge page if we encounter a tail
page for the above use case because losing the gigantic page is
justified when the whole dim goes away.

Thanks!

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs