linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] mm, memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory

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Date:   Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:56:58 +0100
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "mhocko@...e.com" <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "dan.j.williams@...el.com" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Pavel.Tatashin@...rosoft.com" <Pavel.Tatashin@...rosoft.com>,
        "david@...hat.com" <david@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dave.hansen@...el.com" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] mm, memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from
 hotadded memory

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 01:21:38PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
> > Hi Oscar,
> > 
> > I ran tests on one of our arm64 machines. Particular machine doesn't actually
> > have
> > the mechanics for hotplug, so was all 'faked', but software wise it's all the
> > same.
> > 
> > Upshot, seems to work as expected on arm64 as well.
> > Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>

Thanks Jonathan for having given it a spin, much appreciated!
I was short of arm64 machines.

> (qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=1G
> (qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1,node=1
> root@...ntu:~# 
> root@...ntu:~# numactl -H
...
> node 1 cpus:
> node 1 size: 1008 MB
> node 1 free: 1008 MB
> node distances:
> node   0   1 
>   0:  10  20 
>   1:  20  10 
> root@...ntu:~#  

Ok, this is what I wanted to see.
When you hotplugged 1GB, 16MB out of 1024MB  were spent
for the memmap array, that is why you only see 1008MB there.

I am not sure what is the default section size for arm64, but assuming
is 128MB, that would make sense as 1GB would mean 8 sections,
and each section takes 2MB.

That means that at least the mechanism works.

> 
> FWIW,
> Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>

thanks for having tested it ;-)!
-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3