Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA

[Hoan Tran OS]

Hi,

On 7/12/19 10:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 12-07-19 15:37:30, Will Deacon wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:12:23PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Fri 12-07-19 10:56:47, Hoan Tran OS wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> It would be good if we can enable it by-default. Otherwise, let arch
>>>> enables it by them-self. Do you have any suggestions?
>>>
>>> I can hardly make any suggestions when it is not really clear _why_ you
>>> want to remove this config option in the first place. Please explain
>>> what motivated you to make this change.
>>
>> Sorry, I think this confusion might actually be my fault and Hoan has just
>> been implementing my vague suggestion here:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20190625101245.s4vxfosoop52gl4e@willie-the-truck/
>>
>> If the preference of the mm folks is to leave CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>> as it is, then we can define it for arm64. I just find it a bit weird that
>> the majority of NUMA-capable architectures have to add a symbol in the arch
>> Kconfig file, for what appears to be a performance optimisation applicable
>> only to ia64, mips and sh.
>>
>> At the very least we could make the thing selectable.
> 
> Hmm, I thought this was selectable. But I am obviously wrong here.
> Looking more closely, it seems that this is indeed only about
> __early_pfn_to_nid and as such not something that should add a config
> symbol. This should have been called out in the changelog though.

Yes, do you have any other comments about my patch?

> 
> Also while at it, does HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP fall into a similar
> bucket? Do we have any NUMA architecture that doesn't enable it?
> 

As I checked with arch Kconfig files, there are 2 architectures, riscv 
and microblaze, do not support NUMA but enable this config.

And 1 architecture, alpha, supports NUMA but does not enable this config.

Thanks and Regards
Hoan

> Thanks!
>