Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] NUMA balancing: fix NUMA topology type for memory tiering system

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 03:30:50PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > * Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> [2022-01-28 10:38:41]:
> >
> >> 
> >> One possible fix is to ignore CPU-less nodes when detecting NUMA
> >> topology type in init_numa_topology_type().  That works well for the
> >> example system.  Is it good in general for any system with CPU-less
> >> nodes?
> >> 
> >
> > A CPUless node at the time online doesn't necessarily mean a CPUless node
> > for the entire boot. For example: On PowerVM Lpars, aka powerpc systems,
> > some of the nodes may start as CPUless nodes and then CPUS may get
> > populated/hotplugged on them.
> 
> Got it!
> 
> > Hence I am not sure if adding a check for CPUless nodes at node online may
> > work for such systems.
> 
> How about something as below?

I'm thinking that might not be enough in that scenario; if we're going
to consistently skip CPU-less nodes (as I really think we should) then
__sched_domains_numa_masks_set() is not sufficient for the hotplug case
since sched_domains_numa_levels and sched_max_numa_distance can also
change.

This means we need to re-do more of sched_init_numa() and possibly
re-alloc some of those arrays etc..

Same for offline ofc.