Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] mm/mempolicy: Support memory hotplug in weighted interleave

From: Honggyu Kim
Date: Wed Apr 09 2025 - 07:40:18 EST


Hi David,

On 4/9/2025 6:05 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 08.04.25 09:32, Rakie Kim wrote:
The weighted interleave policy distributes page allocations across multiple
NUMA nodes based on their performance weight, thereby improving memory
bandwidth utilization. The weight values for each node are configured
through sysfs.

Previously, sysfs entries for configuring weighted interleave were created
for all possible nodes (N_POSSIBLE) at initialization, including nodes that
might not have memory. However, not all nodes in N_POSSIBLE are usable at
runtime, as some may remain memoryless or offline.
This led to sysfs entries being created for unusable nodes, causing
potential misconfiguration issues.

To address this issue, this patch modifies the sysfs creation logic to:
1) Limit sysfs entries to nodes that are online and have memory, avoiding
    the creation of sysfs entries for nodes that cannot be used.
2) Support memory hotplug by dynamically adding and removing sysfs entries
    based on whether a node transitions into or out of the N_MEMORY state.

Additionally, the patch ensures that sysfs attributes are properly managed
when nodes go offline, preventing stale or redundant entries from persisting
in the system.

By making these changes, the weighted interleave policy now manages its
sysfs entries more efficiently, ensuring that only relevant nodes are
considered for interleaving, and dynamically adapting to memory hotplug
events.

Signed-off-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yunjeong Mun <yunjeong.mun@xxxxxx>


Why are the other SOF in there? Are there Co-developed-by missing?

I initially found the problem and fixed it with my internal implementation but
Rakie also had his idea so he started working on it. His initial implementation
has almost been similar to mine.

I thought Signed-off-by is a way to express the patch series contains our
contribution, but if you think it's unusual, then I can add this.

Co-developed-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@xxxxxx>

For Yunjeong, the following can be added.

Tested-by: Yunjeong Mun <yunjeong.mun@xxxxxx>

However, this patch series is already in Andrew's mm-new so I don't want to
bother him again unless we need to update this patches for other reasons.

Is this okay?

Thanks,
Honggyu



Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>