Re: [PATCH 2/3] slub, hotplug: ignore unrelated node's hot-addingand hot-removing

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu Sep 27 2012 - 18:04:42 EST


(9/27/12 2:47 AM), Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> SLUB only fucus on the nodes which has normal memory, so ignore the other
> node's hot-adding and hot-removing.
>
> Aka: if some memroy of a node(which has no onlined memory) is online,
> but this new memory onlined is not normal memory(HIGH memory example),
> we should not allocate kmem_cache_node for SLUB.
>
> And if the last normal memory is offlined, but the node still has memroy,
> we should remove kmem_cache_node for that node.(current code delay it when
> all of the memory is offlined)
>
> so we only do something when marg->status_change_nid_normal > 0.
> marg->status_change_nid is not suitable here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 2fdd96f..2d78639 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3577,7 +3577,7 @@ static void slab_mem_offline_callback(void *arg)
> struct memory_notify *marg = arg;
> int offline_node;
>
> - offline_node = marg->status_change_nid;
> + offline_node = marg->status_change_nid_normal;
>
> /*
> * If the node still has available memory. we need kmem_cache_node
> @@ -3610,7 +3610,7 @@ static int slab_mem_going_online_callback(void *arg)
> struct kmem_cache_node *n;
> struct kmem_cache *s;
> struct memory_notify *marg = arg;
> - int nid = marg->status_change_nid;
> + int nid = marg->status_change_nid_normal;
> int ret = 0;

Looks reasonable. I think slab need similar fix too.




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