On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 02:51:56PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 21-08-18 14:30:24, Oscar Salvador wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 02:17:34PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > We do have CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=10 in our SLES kernels for quite some > > > time (around SLE11-SP3 AFAICS). > > > > > > Anyway, isn't NODES_ALLOC over engineered a bit? Does actually even do > > > larger than 1024 NUMA nodes? This would be 128B and from a quick glance > > > it seems that none of those functions are called in deep stacks. I > > > haven't gone through all of them but a patch which checks them all and > > > removes NODES_ALLOC would be quite nice IMHO. > > > > No, maximum we can get is 1024 NUMA nodes. > > I checked this when writing another patch [1], and since having gone > > through all archs Kconfigs, CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=10 is the limit. > > > > NODEMASK_ALLOC gets only called from: > > > > - unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() (not anymore after [1]) > > - __nr_hugepages_store_common (This does not seem to have a deep stack, we could use a normal nodemask_t) > > > > But is also used for NODEMASK_SCRATCH (mainly used for mempolicy): > > mempolicy code should be a shallow stack as well. Mostly the syscall > entry. Ok, then I could give it a try and see if we can get rid of NODEMASK_ALLOC in there as well. -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3
