Re: [PATCH] mm: Support memblock alloc on the exact node for sparse_buffer_init()

[Wei Yang]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 03:08:41PM +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
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>On 2019/9/18 14:51, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:22:29PM +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
>>> Currently, when memblock_find_in_range_node() fail on the exact node, it
>>> will use %NUMA_NO_NODE to find memblock from other nodes. At present,
>>> the work is good, but when the large memory is insufficient and the
>>> small memory is enough, we want to allocate the small memory of this
>>> node first, and do not need to allocate large memory from other nodes.
>>>
>>> In sparse_buffer_init(), it will prepare large chunks of memory for page
>>> structure. The page management structure requires a lot of memory, but
>>> if the node does not have enough memory, it can be converted to a small
>>> memory allocation without having to allocate it from other nodes.
>>>
>>> Add %MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE flag for this situation. Normally, the
>>> behavior is the same with %MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, only that it will
>>> not allocate from other nodes when a single node fails to allocate.
>>>
>>> If large contiguous block memory allocated fail in sparse_buffer_init(),
>>> it will allocates small block memmory section by section later.
>>>
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>> Looks this changes current behavior even it fall back to section based
>> allocation.
>> 
>When fall back to section allocation, it still use %MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
>,I think the behavior is not change, Can you tell me the detail about the
>changes. thanks.
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You pass MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE for the first round allocation, which
forbid it allocates from other node. This is different from current behavior.
Am I right?