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When onlining without specifying a zone (using "online" instead of "online_kernel" or "online_movable"), we currently select a zone such that existing zones are kept contiguous. This online policy made sense in the past, where contiguous zones where required. We'd like to implement smarter policies, however: * User space has little insight. As one example, it has no idea which memory blocks logically belong together (e.g., to a DIMM or to a virtio-mem device). * Drivers that add memory in separate memory blocks, especially virtio-mem, want memory to get onlined right from the kernel when adding. So we really want to have onlining to differing zones managed in the kernel, configured by user space. We see more and more cases where we might eventually hotplug a lot of memory in the future (e.g., eventually grow a 2 GiB VM to 64 GiB), however: * Resizing happens dynamically, in smaller steps in both directions (e.g., 2 GiB -> 8 GiB -> 4 GiB -> 16 GiB ...) * We still want as much flexibility as possible, especially, hotunplugging as much memory as possible later. We can really only use "online_movable" if we know that the amount of memory we are going to hotplug upfront, and we know that it won't result in a zone imbalance. So in our example, a 2 GiB VM that could grow to 64 GiB could currently not use "online_movable", and instead, "online_kernel" would have to be used, resulting in worse (no) memory hotunplug reliability. Let's add a new "auto-movable" online policy that considers the current zone ratios (global, per-node) to determine, whether we a memory block can be onlined to ZONE_MOVABLE: MOVABLE : KERNEL However, internally we'll only consider the following ratio for now: MOVABLE : KERNEL_EARLY For now, we don't allow for hotplugged KERNEL memory to allow for more MOVABLE memory, because there is no coordination across memory devices. In follow-up patches, we will allow for more KERNEL memory within a memory device to allow for more MOVABLE memory within the same memory device -- which only makes sense for special memory device types. We base our calculation on "present pages", see the code comments for details. Hotplugged memory will get online to ZONE_MOVABLE if the configured ratio allows for it. Depending on the setup, this can result in fragmented zones, which can make compaction slower and dynamic allocation of gigantic pages when not using CMA less reliable (... which is already pretty unreliable). The old policy will be the default and called "contig-zones". In follow-up patches, our new policy will use additional information, such as memory groups, to make even smarter decisions across memory blocks. Configuration: * memory_hotplug.online_policy is used to switch between both polices and defaults to "contig-zones". * memory_hotplug.auto_movable_ratio defines the maximum ratio is in percent and defaults to "301" -- allowing e.g., most 8 GiB machines to grow to 32 GiB and have all hotplugged memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. The additional percent accounts for a handful of lost present pages (e.g., firmware allocations). User space is expected to adjust this ratio when enabling the new "auto-movable" policy, though. * memory_hotplug.auto_movable_numa_aware considers numa node stats in addition to global stats, and defaults to "true". Note: just like the old policy, the new policy won't take things like unmovable huge pages or memory ballooning that doesn't support balloon compaction into account. User space has to configure onlining accordingly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210806124715.17090-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Marek Kedzierski <mkedzier@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.