linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86,NUMA:Get the number of ram pages directly in numa_meminfo_cover

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Message-ID: <22bba771-f10b-8624-1874-5eb747e798dd@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:49:31 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Liam Ni <zhiguangni01@...il.com>, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rppt@...nel.org
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,NUMA:Get the number of ram pages directly in
 numa_meminfo_cover_memory()

On 6/15/23 07:20, Liam Ni wrote:
> In a previous implementation,The ram page is calculated
> by counting the number of holes,
> however,the number of ram pages is calculated during hole calculation.
> Therefore,we can directly calculate the amount of ram pages.

What problem does this patch solve?