From 86cdb465cf3a9d81058b517af05074157fa9dcdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Naoya Horiguchi Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:22:13 -0700 Subject: mm: prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable Now hugepage migration is enabled, although restricted on pmd-based hugepages for now (due to lack of testing.) So we should allocate migratable hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE if possible. This patch makes GFP flags in hugepage allocation dependent on migration support, not only the value of hugepages_treat_as_movable. It provides no change on the behavior for architectures which do not support hugepage migration, Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Acked-by: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 30 +++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 36ecc26c7433..79a797eb3e87 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -200,17 +200,25 @@ fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500. hugepages_treat_as_movable -This parameter is only useful when kernelcore= is specified at boot time to -create ZONE_MOVABLE for pages that may be reclaimed or migrated. Huge pages -are not movable so are not normally allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. A non-zero -value written to hugepages_treat_as_movable allows huge pages to be allocated -from ZONE_MOVABLE. - -Once enabled, the ZONE_MOVABLE is treated as an area of memory the huge -pages pool can easily grow or shrink within. Assuming that applications are -not running that mlock() a lot of memory, it is likely the huge pages pool -can grow to the size of ZONE_MOVABLE by repeatedly entering the desired value -into nr_hugepages and triggering page reclaim. +This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE +or not. If set to non-zero, hugepages can be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. +ZONE_MOVABLE is created when kernel boot parameter kernelcore= is specified, +so this parameter has no effect if used without kernelcore=. + +Hugepage migration is now available in some situations which depend on the +architecture and/or the hugepage size. If a hugepage supports migration, +allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE is always enabled for the hugepage regardless +of the value of this parameter. +IOW, this parameter affects only non-migratable hugepages. + +Assuming that hugepages are not migratable in your system, one usecase of +this parameter is that users can make hugepage pool more extensible by +enabling the allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE. This is because on ZONE_MOVABLE +page reclaim/migration/compaction work more and you can get contiguous +memory more likely. Note that using ZONE_MOVABLE for non-migratable +hugepages can do harm to other features like memory hotremove (because +memory hotremove expects that memory blocks on ZONE_MOVABLE are always +removable,) so it's a trade-off responsible for the users. ============================================================== -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b