linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] mm: introduce N_LRU_MEMORY to distinguish between normal and movable memory

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Message-ID: <0000013934eaad61-2dad9ff0-e671-4155-98d3-501f243caaba-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:09:21 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
cc:	Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@...wei.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>,
	qiuxishi <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mm: introduce N_LRU_MEMORY to distinguish between
 normal and movable memory

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Hanjun Guo wrote:

> N_NORMAL_MEMORY means non-LRU page allocs possible.

Hmmm... It may be better to say

N_NORMAL_MEMORY 	Allocations are allowed for pages that will not be
			managed via a LRU and that cannot be moved by the page migration logic.

N_LRU_MEMORY		Allocations are possible for pages that are managed via LRUs

N_HIGH_MEMORY		Allocations are allowed for pages that are only temporarliy mapped into kernel address space.

Any node that has the ability to allocate memory at all has at least N_LRU_MEMORY set.

>
>  /*
>   * Bitmasks that are kept for all the nodes.
> + * N_NORMAL_MEMORY means non-LRU page allocs possible.
> + * N_LRU_MEMORY means LRU page allocs possible,
> + * node with ZONE_DMA/ZONE_DMA32/ZONE_NORMAL is marked with
> + * N_LRU_MEMORY and N_NORMAL_MEMORY,
> + * node with ZONE_MOVABLE is *only* marked with N_LRU_MEMORY,
> + * node with ZONE_HIGHMEM is marked with N_LRU_MEMORY and N_HIGH_MEMORY.
> + * N_LRU_MEMORY also means node has any regular memory.
>   */
>  enum node_states {
>  	N_POSSIBLE,		/* The node could become online at some point */
>  	N_ONLINE,		/* The node is online */
> -	N_NORMAL_MEMORY,	/* The node has regular memory */
> +	N_NORMAL_MEMORY,	/* The node has normal memory */
> +	N_LRU_MEMORY,		/* The node has regular memory */

These comments are utter garbage and just repeat what the constant
alreadty expresses. . Please actually say something meaningful that
another developer can use when he attempts to understand what these bits
mean.

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