Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: be more verbose about zonelist initialization

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Feb 13 2019 - 06:50:19 EST


On Wed 13-02-19 11:32:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:43:15AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > @@ -5259,6 +5261,11 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
> >
> > build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, nr_nodes);
> > build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
> > +
> > + pr_info("node[%d] zonelist: ", pgdat->node_id);
> > + for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, &pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK], MAX_NR_ZONES-1)
> > + pr_cont("%d:%s ", zone_to_nid(zone), zone->name);
> > + pr_cont("\n");
> > }
>
> Have you ran this by the SGI and other stupid large machine vendors?

I do not have such a large machine handy. The biggest I have has
handfull (say dozen) of NUMA nodes.

> Traditionally they tend to want to remove such things instead of adding
> them.

I do not insist on this patch but I find it handy. If there is an
opposition I will not miss it much.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs