linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1 of 6] hotplug-memory: refactor online_pages to separate zone growth from page onlining

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Date:	Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:56:28 +0900
From:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 6] hotplug-memory: refactor online_pages to separate zone growth from page onlining

> +/* Mark a set of pages as online */
> +unsigned long mark_pages_onlined(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
> +{
> +	struct zone *zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn));
> +	unsigned long onlined_pages = 0;
> +	int need_zonelists_rebuild = 0;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If this zone is not populated, then it is not in zonelist.
> @@ -240,10 +246,38 @@
>  	vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
>  	writeback_set_ratelimit();
>  
> -	if (onlined_pages)
> +	if (onlined_pages) {
> +		struct memory_notify arg;
> +
> +		arg.start_pfn = pfn;  /* ? */
> +		arg.nr_pages = onlined_pages;
> +		arg.status_change_nid = -1;  /* ? */

status_change_nid is to prepare data structures which are allocated on
each NUMA node.

When memory less node gets new memory, and it changes status
to normal memory, then status_change_nid must be set.

SLUB uses it now.

Thanks.

-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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