linux-kernel - Re: [RFC V2 02/12] mm: Isolate HugeTLB allocations away from CDM nodes

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:19:56 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     mhocko@...e.com, vbabka@...e.cz, mgorman@...e.de,
        minchan@...nel.org, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        bsingharora@...il.com, srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jglisse@...hat.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC V2 02/12] mm: Isolate HugeTLB allocations away from CDM
 nodes

On 01/29/2017 07:35 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> HugeTLB allocation/release/accounting currently spans across all the nodes
> under N_MEMORY node mask. Coherent memory nodes should not be part of these
> allocations. So use system_ram() call to fetch system RAM only nodes on the
> platform which can then be used for HugeTLB allocation purpose instead of
> N_MEMORY node mask. This isolates coherent device memory nodes from HugeTLB
> allocations.

Does this end up making it impossible to use hugetlbfs to access device
memory?