Re: [PATCH] mm: Support memblock alloc on the exact node for sparse_buffer_init()

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On 2019/9/18 14:51, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:22:29PM +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
>> Currently, when memblock_find_in_range_node() fail on the exact node, it
>> will use %NUMA_NO_NODE to find memblock from other nodes. At present,
>> the work is good, but when the large memory is insufficient and the
>> small memory is enough, we want to allocate the small memory of this
>> node first, and do not need to allocate large memory from other nodes.
>>
>> In sparse_buffer_init(), it will prepare large chunks of memory for page
>> structure. The page management structure requires a lot of memory, but
>> if the node does not have enough memory, it can be converted to a small
>> memory allocation without having to allocate it from other nodes.
>>
>> Add %MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE flag for this situation. Normally, the
>> behavior is the same with %MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, only that it will
>> not allocate from other nodes when a single node fails to allocate.
>>
>> If large contiguous block memory allocated fail in sparse_buffer_init(),
>> it will allocates small block memmory section by section later.
>>
> 
> Looks this changes current behavior even it fall back to section based
> allocation.
> 
When fall back to section allocation, it still use %MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
,I think the behavior is not change, Can you tell me the detail about the
changes. thanks.


>> Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/linux/memblock.h | 1 +
>> mm/memblock.c            | 3 ++-
>> mm/sparse.c              | 2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
>> index f491690..9a81d9c 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
>> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ static inline int memblock_get_region_node(const struct memblock_region *r)
>> #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE	(~(phys_addr_t)0)
>> #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE	0
>> #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_KASAN		1
>> +#define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE	2
>>
>> /* We are using top down, so it is safe to use 0 here */
>> #define MEMBLOCK_LOW_LIMIT 0
>> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
>> index 7d4f61a..dbd52c3c 100644
>> --- a/mm/memblock.c
>> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
>> @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t size,
>>
>> 	/* pump up @end */
>> 	if (end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE ||
>> +	    end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE ||
>> 	    end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_KASAN)
>> 		end = memblock.current_limit;
>>
>> @@ -1365,7 +1366,7 @@ static phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc_range_nid(phys_addr_t size,
>> 	if (found && !memblock_reserve(found, size))
>> 		goto done;
>>
>> -	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
>> +	if (end != MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE && nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
>> 		found = memblock_find_in_range_node(size, align, start,
>> 						    end, NUMA_NO_NODE,
>> 						    flags);
>> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
>> index 72f010d..828db46 100644
>> --- a/mm/sparse.c
>> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static void __init sparse_buffer_init(unsigned long size, int nid)
>> 	sparsemap_buf =
>> 		memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, PAGE_SIZE,
>> 						addr,
>> -						MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid);
>> +						MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_EXACT_NODE, nid);
>> 	sparsemap_buf_end = sparsemap_buf + size;
>> }
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.7.4.huawei.3
>>
> 





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