Re: [RFC v1 00/19] Modify zonelist to nodelist v1

[David Hildenbrand]

On 22.11.19 08:25, lixinhai.lxh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2019-11-21Âat 23:17ÂPengfei LiÂwrote:
> > Motivation
> > ----------
> > Currently if we want to iterate through all the nodes we have to
> > traverse all the zones from the zonelist.
> >
> > So in order to reduce the number of loops required to traverse node,
> > this series of patches modified the zonelist to nodelist.
> >
> > Two new macros have been introduced:
> > 1) for_each_node_nlist
> > 2) for_each_node_nlist_nodemask
> >
> >
> > Benefit
> > -------
> > 1. For a NUMA system with N nodes, each node has M zones, the number
> >  ÂÂ of loops is reduced from N*M times to N times when traversing node.
>
> It looks to me that we don't really have system which has N nodes and
> each node withÂM zones in its address range.
> We may have systems which has several nodes, but only the first node has
> all zone types, other nodes only have NORMAL zone. (Evenly distribute the
> !NORMAL zones on all nodes is not reasonable, as those zones have limited
> size)
> So iterate over zones to reach nodes should at N level, not M*N level.

I guess NORMAL/MOVABLE/DEVICE would be common for most nodes, while I do 
agree that usually we will only have 1 or 2 zones per node (when we have 
many nodes). So it would be something like c*N, whereby c is most 
probably on average 2.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb