Re: [v3 1/4] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: Use nid of the head page to reallocate it

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Mon Aug 28 2023 - 14:26:53 EST


On 08/28/23 15:15, Muchun Song wrote:
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> > On Aug 25, 2023, at 19:18, Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > If tail page prep and initialization is skipped, then the "start"
> > page will not contain the correct nid. Use the nid from first
> > vmemap page.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Make sense even if without your optimization. Because the nid is
> used for allocation for "reuse" page, it really should be extracted
> from "reuse" page instead of "start" page.
>
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Agree that using reuse is better than start here. However, IIUC there is no
way start and reuse could be on different nodes today.

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Mike Kravetz