linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: return 0 in case this node has no page within the zone

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:29:32 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc:     vbabka@...e.cz, mgorman@...hsingularity.net, mhocko@...e.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: return 0 in case this node has no page
 within the zone

On Mon,  6 Feb 2017 23:43:14 +0800 Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com> wrote:

> The whole memory space is divided into several zones and nodes may have no
> page in some zones. In this case, the __absent_pages_in_range() would
> return 0, since the range it is searching for is an empty range.
> 
> Also this happens more often to those nodes with higher memory range when
> there are more nodes, which is a trend for future architectures.
> 
> This patch checks the zone range after clamp and adjustment, return 0 if
> the range is an empty range.

What are the user-visible runtime effects of this change?