Re: [RFC PATCH v2] SLUB: enhance slub to handle memory nodes withoutnormal memory

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Jul 24 2012 - 10:45:57 EST


On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Jiang Liu wrote:

>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 8c691fa..3976745 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2803,6 +2803,17 @@ static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s)
>
> static struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_node;
>
> +static bool node_has_normal_memory(int node)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = ZONE_NORMAL; i >= 0; i--)
> + if (populated_zone(&NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[i]))
> + return true;
> +
> + return false;
> +}

There is already a N_NORMAL_MEMORY node map that contains a list of node
that have *normal* memory usable by slab allocators etc. I think the
cleanest solution would be to clear the corresponding node bits for your
special movable only zones. Then you wont be needing to modify other
subsystems anymore.

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