Re: [PATCH v3] mm/sparse.c: Use kvmalloc_node/kvfree to alloc/free memmap for the classic sparse

[Baoquan He]

On 03/14/20 at 01:56pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 14-03-20 08:53:34, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/13/20 at 03:56pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 12-03-20 22:17:49, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > This change makes populate_section_memmap()/depopulate_section_memmap
> > > > much simpler.
> > > 
> > > Not only and you should make it more explicit. It also tries to allocate
> > > memmaps from the target numa node so this is a functional change. I
> > > would prefer to have that in a separate patch in case we hit some weird
> > > NUMA setups which would choke on memory less nodes and similar horrors.
> > 
> > Yes, splitting sounds more reasonable, I would love to do that. One
> > question is I noticed Andrew had picked this into -mm tree, if I post a
> > new patchset including these two small patches, whether it's convenient
> > to drop the old one and get these two merged.
> 
> Andrew usually just drops the previous version and replaces it by the
> new one. So just post a new version. Thanks!

I see, will post a new version, thanks.