Re: [Phishing Risk] [External] Re: [PATCH v2] mm/hugetlb: add mempolicy check in the reservation routine

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 24-07-20 21:56:29, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 7:34 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > I believe you can simplify this and use a similar pattern as the page
> > allocator. Something like
> >
> >         for_each_node_mask(node, mpol_allowed) {
> >                 if (node_isset(node, &cpuset_current_mems_allowed))
> >                         nr += array[node];
> >         }
> >
> > There shouldn't be any need to allocate a potentially large nodemask on
> > the stack.
> 
> An unsigned long can satisfy 64 nodes. So I think that nodemask is using
> little stack memory. Right?

CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=10

is not something surprising. E.g. SLES is using that default for a long
time because those kernels tend to run on very large machines.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs