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| author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2020-10-16 05:09:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-16 20:11:18 +0200 |
| commit | b86c5fc4e71a23e284b7cdfb757fb76534ab4119 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ee36b5185cffe1d0b4a8b044be9c6ea1546e1e6 /mm | |
| parent | mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core() (diff) | |
| download | linux-b86c5fc4e71a23e284b7cdfb757fb76534ab4119.tar.xz linux-b86c5fc4e71a23e284b7cdfb757fb76534ab4119.zip | |
mm/memory_hotplug: update comment regarding zone shuffling
As we no longer shuffle via generic_online_page() and when undoing
isolation, we can simplify the comment.
We now effectively shuffle only once (properly) when onlining new memory.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory_hotplug.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index d397af38f9ce..6f203574ca1d 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -858,13 +858,10 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, undo_isolate_page_range(pfn, pfn + nr_pages, MIGRATE_MOVABLE); /* - * When exposing larger, physically contiguous memory areas to the - * buddy, shuffling in the buddy (when freeing onlined pages, putting - * them either to the head or the tail of the freelist) is only helpful - * for maintaining the shuffle, but not for creating the initial - * shuffle. Shuffle the whole zone to make sure the just onlined pages - * are properly distributed across the whole freelist. Make sure to - * shuffle once pageblocks are no longer isolated. + * Freshly onlined pages aren't shuffled (e.g., all pages are placed to + * the tail of the freelist when undoing isolation). Shuffle the whole + * zone to make sure the just onlined pages are properly distributed + * across the whole freelist - to create an initial shuffle. */ shuffle_zone(zone); |