linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] mm: balancing the node zones occupancy

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Date:   Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:16:30 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Charan Teja Reddy <charante@...eaurora.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rientjes@...gle.com, vbabka@...e.cz,
        mhocko@...e.com, mgorman@...hsingularity.net, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     vinmenon@...eaurora.org, sudaraja@...eaurora.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] mm: balancing the node zones occupancy

On 18.02.21 18:24, Charan Teja Reddy wrote:
> I would like to start discussion about  balancing the occupancy of
> memory zones in a node in the system whose imabalance may be caused by
> migration of pages to other zones during hotremove and then hotadding
> same memory. In this case there is a lot of free memory in newly hotadd
> memory which can be filled up by the previous migrated pages(as part of
> offline/hotremove) thus may free up some pressure in other zones of the
> node.

Why is this specific to memory hot(un)plug? I think the problem is more 
generic:

Assume

1. Application 1 allocates a lot of memory and gets ZONE_MOVABLE.
2. Application 2 allocates a lot of memory and gets ZONE_NORMAL.
3. Application 1 quits.

Same problem, no?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb