Re: [PATCH] x86: numa: drop ZONE_ALIGN

Yinghai Lu
2014-06-09T22:13:41Z

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 18:29:11 -0700
> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> wrote:
> [ 0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003ffeffff] usable
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003fff0000-0x000000003fffefff] ACPI data
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003ffff000-0x000000003fffffff] ACPI NVS
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040200000-0x00000000801fffff] usable
...
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x00 -> Node 0
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x01 -> Node 0
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x02 -> Node 1
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x03 -> Node 1
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x3fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 [mem 0x40200000-0x801fffff]
> [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x3fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] NODE_DATA [mem 0x3ffec000-0x3ffeffff]
> [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 1 [mem 0x40800000-0x801fffff]
> [ 0.000000] NODE_DATA [mem 0x801fb000-0x801fefff]

so node1 start is aligned to 8M from 2M

node0: [0, 1G)
node1: [1G+2M, 2G+2M)

The zone should not cross the 8M boundary?

In the case should we trim the memblock for numa to be 8M alignment ?

Thanks

Yinghai