The patch titled
change zonelist order: documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
change-zonelist-order-documentaion.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into change-zonelist-order-zonelist-order-selection-logic.patch
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Subject: change zonelist order: documentation
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Documentation for numa_zonelist_order.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "jesse.barnes@xxxxxxxxx" <jesse.barnes@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 ++
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~change-zonelist-order-documentaion Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~change-zonelist-order-documentaion
+++ a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1245,6 +1245,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
nowb [ARM]
+ numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
+ one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
+ This can be set from sysctl after boot.
+ See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
+
nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
opl3= [HW,OSS]
diff -puN Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt~change-zonelist-order-documentaion Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt~change-zonelist-order-documentaion
+++ a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/
- min_slab_ratio
- panic_on_oom
- mmap_min_address
+- numa_zonelist_order
==============================================================
@@ -231,3 +232,47 @@ security module. Setting this value to
vast majority of applications to work correctly and provide defense in depth
against future potential kernel bugs.
+==============================================================
+
+numa_zonelist_order
+
+This sysctl is only for NUMA.
+'where the memory is allocated from' is controlled by zonelists.
+(This documentation ignores ZONE_HIGHMEM/ZONE_DMA32 for simple explanation.
+ you may be able to read ZONE_DMA as ZONE_DMA32...)
+
+In non-NUMA case, a zonelist for GFP_KERNEL is ordered as following.
+ZONE_NORMAL -> ZONE_DMA
+This means that a memory allocation request for GFP_KERNEL will
+get memory from ZONE_DMA only when ZONE_NORMAL is not available.
+
+In NUMA case, you can think of following 2 types of order.
+Assume 2 node NUMA and below is zonelist of Node(0)'s GFP_KERNEL
+
+(A) Node(0) ZONE_NORMAL -> Node(0) ZONE_DMA -> Node(1) ZONE_NORMAL
+(B) Node(0) ZONE_NORMAL -> Node(1) ZONE_NORMAL -> Node(0) ZONE_DMA.
+
+Type(A) offers the best locality for processes on Node(0), but ZONE_DMA
+will be used before ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion. This increases possibility of
+out-of-memory(OOM) of ZONE_DMA because ZONE_DMA is tend to be small.
+
+Type(B) cannot offer the best locality but is more robust against OOM of
+the DMA zone.
+
+Type(A) is called as "Node" order. Type (B) is "Zone" order.
+
+"Node order" orders the zonelists by node, then by zone within each node.
+Specify "[Nn]ode" for zone order
+
+"Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each
+zone. Specify "[Zz]one"for zode order.
+
+Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. Autoconfiguration
+will select "node" order in following case.
+(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or
+(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or
+(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 60% of its local memory and
+ the amount of local memory is big enough.
+
+Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
+this is causing problems for your system/application.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
change-zonelist-order-zonelist-order-selection-logic.patch
change-zonelist-order-documentaion.patch
memory-unplug-v7-migration-by-kernel.patch
memory-unplug-v7-isolate_lru_page-fix.patch
memory-unplug-v7-memory-hotplug-cleanup.patch
memory-unplug-v7-page-isolation.patch
memory-unplug-v7-page-offline.patch
memory-unplug-v7-ia64-interface.patch
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