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From: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, nvdimm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	vishal.l.verma@intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DAX: warn when kmem regions are truncated for memory block alignment.
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 10:43:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z-v7mMZcP1JPIuj4@gourry-fedora-PF4VCD3F> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e3115c0-c3a2-4ec2-8aea-ee1b40057dd6@redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 11:33:59AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 31.03.25 20:27, Gregory Price wrote:
> > We discussed [1] how this auto-sizing can cause 1GB huge page
> > allocation failures (assuming you online as ZONE_NORMAL). That means
> > ACPI-informed sizing by default would potentially be harmful to existing
> > systems and adding yet-another-boot-option just seems nasty.
> > 
> > I've since dropped acpi-informed block size patch[2].  If there are opinions
> > otherwise, I can continue pushing it.
> 
> Oh, I thought we would be going forward with that. What's the reason we
> would not want to do that?
> 

It seemed like having it reduce block size by default would make 1GB huge
pages less reliable to allocate. If you think this isn't a large concern,
I can update and push again.  I suppose I could make it a build option.

Any opinions here are welcome.

~Gregory

  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-01 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-21 18:07 Gregory Price
2025-03-31 18:27 ` Gregory Price
2025-04-01  9:33   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-01 14:43     ` Gregory Price [this message]
2025-04-01 14:50       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-01 15:16         ` Gregory Price
2025-04-01 15:19           ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-01 15:26             ` Gregory Price
2025-04-01 15:29               ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-01  9:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-01 14:44   ` Gregory Price
2025-04-01 17:47   ` Dan Williams
2025-04-01 18:27     ` Gregory Price

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