Re: [PATCH 3/3] dma-pool: limit DMA and DMA32 zone size pools

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 22-08-22 14:27:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:09:13PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > OK, so you are worried about configurations that lack ZONE_DMA32 because
> > that memory range is covered by ZONE_DMA? I thought though simply do not
> > have CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32. Or am I wrong here?
> 
> Zones can disappear when they are empty.  Normally that affects
> ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_HIGHMEM, but it can also happen to ZONE_DMA32
> when there is not enough memory.

Correct but that is essentially the same problem as ZONE_DMA becoming
empty. Or maybe I am just completely missing what you are trying to
say/ask?

My whole point was that if those zones are configured and you cannot
pre-allocate the pool then this can be either a result of OOM on that
zone or zone completely empty. In either case the pool would be empty
and if that is something worth bothering^Wnotifying an admin about then
better provide something useful rather than over messaging for one case
and be silent about the other. See my point?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs