linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612071817280.11503@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:20:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that
 may be migrated

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> You can also deal with memory hotplug by adding a Xen-style
> pseudo-physical vs machine address abstraction.  This doesn't help with
> making space for contiguous allocations, but it does allow you to move
> "physical" pages from one machine page to another if you want to.  The
> paravirt ops infrastructure has already appeared in -git, and I'll soon
> have patches to allow Xen's paravirtualized mmu mode to work with it,
> which is a superset of what would be required to implement movable pages
> for hotpluggable memory.
> 
> (I don't know if you actually want to consider this approach; I'm just
> pointing out that it definitely a bad idea to conflate the two problems
> of memory fragmentation and hotplug.)

The same can be done using the virtual->physical mappings that exist on 
many platforms for the kernel address space (ia64 dynamically calculates 
those, x86_64 uses a page table with 2M pages for mapping the kernel). The 
problem is that the 1-1 mapping between physical and virtual addresses 
will have to be (at least partially) sacrificed which may lead to 
complications with DMA devices.


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