linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, memory_hotplug: simplify empty node mask handling in new_node

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:15:16 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>,
        zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, memory_hotplug: simplify empty node mask handling
 in new_node_page

On 06/08/2017 09:45 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> new_node_page tries to allocate the target page on a different NUMA node
> than the source page. This makes sense in most cases during the hotplug
> because we are likely to offline the whole numa node. But there are
> cases where there are no other nodes to fallback (e.g. when offlining
> parts of the only existing node) and we have to fallback to allocating
> from the source node. The current code does that but it can be
> simplified by checking the nmask and updating it before we even try to
> allocate rather than special casing it.
> 
> This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>