On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:29:13PM -0800, Sudarshan Rajagopalan wrote: > memory_block_size_bytes() determines the memory hotplug granularity i.e the > amount of memory which can be hot added or hot removed from the kernel. The > generic value here being MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) > for memory_block_size_bytes() on platforms like arm64 that does not override. > > Current SECTION_SIZE_BITS is 30 i.e 1GB which is large and a reduction here > increases memory hotplug granularity, thus improving its agility. A reduced > section size also reduces memory wastage in vmemmmap mapping for sections > with large memory holes. So we try to set the least section size as possible. > > A section size bits selection must follow: > (MAX_ORDER - 1 + PAGE_SHIFT) <= SECTION_SIZE_BITS > > CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER is always defined on arm64 and so just following it > would help achieve the smallest section size. > > SECTION_SIZE_BITS = (CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER - 1 + PAGE_SHIFT) > > SECTION_SIZE_BITS = 22 (11 - 1 + 12) i.e 4MB for 4K pages > SECTION_SIZE_BITS = 24 (11 - 1 + 14) i.e 16MB for 16K pages without THP > SECTION_SIZE_BITS = 25 (12 - 1 + 14) i.e 32MB for 16K pages with THP > SECTION_SIZE_BITS = 26 (11 - 1 + 16) i.e 64MB for 64K pages without THP > SECTION_SIZE_BITS = 29 (14 - 1 + 16) i.e 512MB for 64K pages with THP > > But there are other problems in reducing SECTION_SIZE_BIT. Reducing it by too > much would over populate /sys/devices/system/memory/ and also consume too many > page->flags bits in the !vmemmap case. Also section size needs to be multiple > of 128MB to have PMD based vmemmap mapping with CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES. > > Given these constraints, lets just reduce the section size to 128MB for 4K > and 16K base page size configs, and to 512MB for 64K base page size config. > > Signed-off-by: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <sudaraja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> > Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Anshuman -- are you happy with this now? Will
