linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/page_alloc: Only call pgdat_set_deferred

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:46:22 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     osalvador@...hadventures.net
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, pasha.tatashin@...cle.com,
        vbabka@...e.cz, aaron.lu@...el.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/page_alloc: Only call pgdat_set_deferred_range
 when the system boots

On Thu 19-07-18 15:27:40, osalvador@...hadventures.net wrote:
> From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> 
> We should only care about deferred initialization when booting.

Again why is this worth doing?
 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index d77bc2a7ec2c..5911b64a88ab 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6419,7 +6419,8 @@ void __paginginit free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long *zones_size,
>  				  zones_size, zholes_size);
>  
>  	alloc_node_mem_map(pgdat);
> -	pgdat_set_deferred_range(pgdat);
> +	if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING)
> +		pgdat_set_deferred_range(pgdat);
>  
>  	free_area_init_core(pgdat);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.13.6
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs