linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without
 CONFIG_NUMA

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA. The current users of
> page migration such as sys_move_pages(), sys_migrate_pages() and cpuset
> process migration are ordinarily only beneficial on NUMA.
> 
> As memory compaction will operate within a zone and is useful on both NUMA
> and non-NUMA systems, this patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set if the
> user selects CONFIG_COMPACTION as an option.
> 
> TODO
>   o After this patch is applied, the migration core is available but it
>     also makes NUMA-specific features available. This is too much
>     exposure so revisit this.
> 

CONFIG_MIGRATION is no longer strictly dependent on CONFIG_NUMA since 
ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE has allowed it to be configured for UMA 
machines.  All strictly NUMA features in the migration core should be 
isolated under its #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA (sys_move_pages()) in mm/migrate.c 
or by simply not compiling mm/mempolicy.c (sys_migrate_pages()), so this 
patch looks fine as is (although the "help" text for CONFIG_MIGRATION 
could be updated to reflect that it's useful for both memory hot-remove 
and now compaction).

> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> ---
>  mm/Kconfig |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 17b8947..1d8e2b2 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -168,12 +168,22 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
>  	default "4"
>  
>  #
> +# support for memory compaction
> +config COMPACTION
> +	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
> +	def_bool y
> +	select MIGRATION
> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLBFS
> +	help
> +	  Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.
> +
> +#
>  # support for page migration
>  #
>  config MIGRATION
>  	bool "Page migration"
>  	def_bool y
> -	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> +	depends on NUMA || ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE || COMPACTION
>  	help
>  	  Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
>  	  while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful for
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