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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: vbabka@suse.cz, mgorman@techsingularity.net, mhocko@suse.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: return 0 in case this node has no page within the zone
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:29:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206152932.19e7947df487b96b8912e524@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170206154314.15705-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>

On Mon,  6 Feb 2017 23:43:14 +0800 Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> wrote:

> The whole memory space is divided into several zones and nodes may have no
> page in some zones. In this case, the __absent_pages_in_range() would
> return 0, since the range it is searching for is an empty range.
> 
> Also this happens more often to those nodes with higher memory range when
> there are more nodes, which is a trend for future architectures.
> 
> This patch checks the zone range after clamp and adjustment, return 0 if
> the range is an empty range.

What are the user-visible runtime effects of this change?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-06 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-06 15:43 Wei Yang
2017-02-06 23:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-02-07 15:07   ` Wei Yang
2017-02-07  9:45 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 15:32   ` Wei Yang
2017-02-07 15:41     ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 14:05       ` Wei Yang
2017-02-08 14:39         ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-09 13:59       ` Wei Yang
2017-02-22  8:49         ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-22 10:51           ` Wei Yang
2017-02-22 11:45             ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-22 14:18               ` Wei Yang

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