Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for inode/dentry hash tables in early boot

[Mel Gorman]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:01:40PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote:
> From: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch is based on Mel Gorman's old patch in the mailing list,
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/280 which is dicussed but it is
> fixed with a completion to wait for all memory initialised in
> page_alloc_init_late(). It is to fix the oom problem on X86
> with 24TB memory which allocates memory in late initialisation.
> But for Power platform with 32TB memory, it causes a call trace
> in vfs_caches_init->inode_init() and inode hash table needs more
> memory.
> So this patch allocates 1GB for 0.25TB/node for large system
> as it is mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/627
> 

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs