linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order v4 [0/2]

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Message-Id: <1178299460.5236.35.camel@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 04 May 2007 13:24:19 -0400
From:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order v4 [0/2]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:18 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> > I think the idea is to avoid exhausting ZONE_DMA on some NUMA boxes by 
> > ordering the fallback list first by zone, then by node distance (e.g. 
> > ZONE_NORMAL of local node, then ZONE_NORMAL of next nearest node etc., 
> > followed by ZONE_DMA of local node, ZONE_DMA of next nearest node, etc.).
> 
> Maybe it would be cleaner to setup a DMA and DMA32 "node" up and define 
> them at a certain distance to the rest of the nodes that only contain 
> ZONE_NORMAL (or the zone that is replicated on all nodes). Then we would 
> have that effect without reworking zone list generation. Plus in the long 
> run we may then be able to get to 1 zone per node avoiding the 
> difficulties coming zone fallback altogether.
> 
> > Another option would be to make this behavior automatic if both ZONE_DMA 
> > and ZONE_NORMAL had pages.  I initially wrote this stuff with the idea 
> > that machines that really needed it would have all their memory in 
> > ZONE_DMA, but obviously that's not the case, so some more smarts are 
> > needed.
> 
> I think what would work is to first setup nodes that use the highest zone. 
> Then add virtual nodes for the lower zones that may only exist on a single 
> node.
> 
> I.e. a 4 node x86_64 box may have
> 
> Node
> 0	ZONE_NORMAL
> 1	ZONE_NORMAL
> 2	ZONE_NORMAL
> 3	ZONE_NORMAL
> 4	ZONE_DMA32
> 5	[additional ZONE_DMA32 if zone DMA32 is split over multiple nodes]
> 6	ZONE_DMA
> 
> The SLIT information can be used to control how the nodes fallback to the 
> DMA32 nodes on 4 and 5. Node 6 would be given a very high SLIT distance so 
> that it would be used only if an actual __GFP_DMA occurs or the system 
> really runs into memory difficulties.

Hmmm...  "serious hackery", indeed!  ;-)

Lee

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