linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] mm/memory_hotplug: drop nr_isolate_pageblock in offline

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Message-ID: <20200824104912.GE6315@linux>
Date:   Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:49:12 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] mm/memory_hotplug: drop nr_isolate_pageblock in
 offline_pages()

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 07:59:52PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> We make sure that we cannot have any memory holes right at the beginning
> of offline_pages() and we only support to online/offline full sections.
> Both, sections and pageblocks are a power of two in size, and sections
> always span full pageblocks.
> 
> We can directly calculate the number of isolated pageblocks from nr_pages.
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@...il.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>


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