Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/mempolicy: Support memory hotplug in weighted interleave

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Mar 13 2025 - 18:37:03 EST


On 13.03.25 17:23, Gregory Price wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 03:33:37PM +0900, Rakie Kim wrote:
I'm fairly certain this logic is wrong. If I add two memory blocks and
then remove one, would this logic not remove the sysfs entries despite
there being a block remaining?

Regarding the assumption about node configuration:
Are you assuming that a node has two memory blocks and that
MEM_OFFLINE is triggered when one of them is offlined? If so, then
you are correct that this logic would need modification.

I performed a simple test by offlining a single memory block:
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/node/node2/memory100/online

In this case, MEM_OFFLINE was not triggered. However, I need to
conduct further analysis to confirm this behavior under different
conditions. I will review this in more detail and share my
findings, including the test methodology and results.


+David - might have a quick answer to this. I would have expected a
single memory block going offline to cause a notification.

Yes. Unless offlining failed, or the block was already offline :)

If it doesn't happen for an actual online memory block that is offline after the call, we would have a bug.


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb