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Message-ID: <872562fa-5dd7-4cc9-82ab-5b7c09ee8fe3@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:01:41 +0100
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
To: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@...el.com>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, Yong Hu <yong.hu@...el.com>,
Nanhai Zou <nanhai.zou@...el.com>, Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@...el.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>, Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>,
Yu C Chen <yu.c.chen@...el.com>, Pan Deng <pan.deng@...el.com>,
Chen Zhang <zhangchen.kidd@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/memory hotplug/unplug: Optimize zone->contiguous
update when move pfn range
On 11/19/25 15:06, Tianyou Li wrote:
> When invoke move_pfn_range_to_zone, it will update the zone->contiguous by
> checking the new zone's pfn range from the beginning to the end, regardless
> the previous state of the old zone. When the zone's pfn range is large, the
> cost of traversing the pfn range to update the zone->contiguous could be
> significant.
>
> Add fast paths to quickly detect cases where zone is definitely not
> contiguous without scanning the new zone. The cases are: when the new range
> did not overlap with previous range, the contiguous should be false; if the
> new range adjacent with the previous range, just need to check the new
> range; if the new added pages could not fill the hole of previous zone, the
> contiguous should be false.
>
> The following test cases of memory hotplug for a VM [1], tested in the
> environment [2], show that this optimization can significantly reduce the
> memory hotplug time [3].
>
> +----------------+------+---------------+--------------+----------------+
> | | Size | Time (before) | Time (after) | Time Reduction |
> | +------+---------------+--------------+----------------+
> | Memory Hotplug | 256G | 10s | 2s | 80% |
> | +------+---------------+--------------+----------------+
> | | 512G | 33s | 6s | 81% |
> +----------------+------+---------------+--------------+----------------+
>
> [1] Qemu commands to hotplug 512G memory for a VM:
> object_add memory-backend-ram,id=hotmem0,size=512G,share=on
> device_add virtio-mem-pci,id=vmem1,memdev=hotmem0,bus=port1
> qom-set vmem1 requested-size 512G
>
> [2] Hardware : Intel Icelake server
> Guest Kernel : v6.18-rc2
> Qemu : v9.0.0
>
> Launch VM :
> qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -cpu host \
> -drive file=./Centos10_cloud.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio \
> -drive file=./seed.img,format=raw,if=virtio \
> -smp 3,cores=3,threads=1,sockets=1,maxcpus=3 \
> -m 2G,slots=10,maxmem=2052472M \
> -device pcie-root-port,id=port1,bus=pcie.0,slot=1,multifunction=on \
> -device pcie-root-port,id=port2,bus=pcie.0,slot=2 \
> -nographic -machine q35 \
> -nic user,hostfwd=tcp::3000-:22
>
> Guest kernel auto-onlines newly added memory blocks:
> echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
>
> [3] The time from typing the QEMU commands in [1] to when the output of
> 'grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo' on Guest reflects that all hotplugged
> memory is recognized.
>
> Reported-by: Nanhai Zou <nanhai.zou@...el.com>
> Reported-by: Chen Zhang <zhangchen.kidd@...com>
> Tested-by: Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yu C Chen <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pan Deng <pan.deng@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nanhai Zou <nanhai.zou@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@...el.com>
> ---
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 0be83039c3b5..aed1827a2778 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -723,6 +723,51 @@ static void __meminit resize_pgdat_range(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned lon
>
> }
>
> +static bool __meminit check_zone_contiguous_fast(struct zone *zone,
> + unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
> +{
> + const unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
> +
> + /*
> + * Given the moved pfn range's contiguous property is always true,
> + * under the conditional of empty zone, the contiguous property should
> + * be true.
> + */
> + if (zone_is_empty(zone)) {
> + zone->contiguous = true;
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * If the moved pfn range does not intersect with the original zone span,
> + * the contiguous property is surely false.
> + */
> + if (end_pfn < zone->zone_start_pfn || start_pfn > zone_end_pfn(zone)) {
> + zone->contiguous = false;
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * If the moved pfn range is adjacent to the original zone span, given
> + * the moved pfn range's contiguous property is always true, the zone's
> + * contiguous property inherited from the original value.
> + */
> + if (end_pfn == zone->zone_start_pfn || start_pfn == zone_end_pfn(zone))
> + return true;
> +
> + /*
> + * If the original zone's hole larger than the moved pages in the range,
> + * the contiguous property is surely false.
> + */
> + if (nr_pages < (zone->spanned_pages - zone->present_pages)) {
> + zone->contiguous = false;
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> + clear_zone_contiguous(zone);
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
> static void section_taint_zone_device(unsigned long pfn)
> {
> @@ -752,8 +797,7 @@ void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
> {
> struct pglist_data *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
> int nid = pgdat->node_id;
> -
> - clear_zone_contiguous(zone);
> + const bool fast_path = check_zone_contiguous_fast(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>
> if (zone_is_empty(zone))
> init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
> @@ -783,7 +827,8 @@ void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
> MEMINIT_HOTPLUG, altmap, migratetype,
> isolate_pageblock);
>
> - set_zone_contiguous(zone);
> + if (!fast_path)
> + set_zone_contiguous(zone);
> }
>
> struct auto_movable_stats {
Agreed with Mike that we should keep clearing+resetting the bit.
Also, I don't particularly enjoy the "fast_path" terminology. Probably we
want in the end something high-level like:
bool definetly_contig;
definetly_contig = clear_zone_contiguous_for_growing(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
...
set_zone_contiguous(zone, definetly_contig);
We could do something similar on the removal path then, where the zone
will for sure stay contiguous if we are removing the first/last part.
bool definetly_contig;
stays_contiguous = clear_zone_contiguous_for_shrinking(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
...
set_zone_contiguous(zone, definetly_contig);
If we can come up for a better name for definetly_contig that would be nice.
--
Cheers
David
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