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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:44:46 +0800
From:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Don Morris <don.morris@...com>,
	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	jarkko.sakkinen@...el.com
Subject: Re: sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node!

On 02/27/2013 03:25 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Tang Chen<tangchen@...fujitsu.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/27/2013 02:54 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> Those patches are tangled together.
>>
>>
>> No, they are not.
>>
>> The following commits supports "movablemem_map=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]".
>>
>> commit fb06bc8e5f42f38c011de0e59481f464a82380f6
>>      page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map
>> commit 42f47e27e761fee07da69e04612ec7dd0d490edd
>>      page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority
>> commit 6981ec31146cf19454c55c130625f6cee89aab95
>>      page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep movable limit for nodes
>> commit 34b71f1e04fcba578e719e675b4882eeeb2a1f6f
>>      page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter
>> commit 4d59a75125d5a4717e57e9fc62c64b3d346e603e
>>      x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node
>>
>> And the following supports "movablemem_map=srat".
>>
>> commit f7210e6c4ac795694106c1c5307134d3fc233e88
>>      mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().
>> commit 01a178a94e8eaec351b29ee49fbb3d1c124cb7fb
>>      acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRAT
>> commit 27168d38fa209073219abedbe6a9de7ba9acbfad
>>      acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to the end of node
>> commit e8d1955258091e4c92d5a975ebd7fd8a98f5d30f
>>      acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is ready
>
> those four can be reverted cleanly?

Sorry, if you want to revert, you just need to revert:
  commit e8d1955258091e4c92d5a975ebd7fd8a98f5d30f
       acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is ready
  commit 01a178a94e8eaec351b29ee49fbb3d1c124cb7fb
       acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRAT

The other two have nothing to do with SRAT. And they are necessary.

Seeing from the code, I think it is clean. But we'd better test it.

>
>>
>>>
>>> Also it looks funny to ask user to specify mem range in boot command
>>> line to enable mem hotplug.
>>
>>
>> Well, I think sometimes users don't like the SRAT memory style, and want to
>> increase or reduce hot-pluggable memory by themselves. And also, it is
>> useful
>> for debuging firmware bugs.
>>
>> I agree that "movablemem_map=srat" functionality need more work to improve.
>> Can we not revert it, and improve it during 3.9rc ? I think during rc time,
>> at least we can fix the problems brought by early_parse_srat().
>
> looks like acpi_override can not be fixed.

About this problem, I need to do some investigation, and I think we can 
have a try.

I do hope we can keep these patches. And put the improve work in the 
future. :)

Thanks. :)
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