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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Interface for higher order contiguous allocations
On Thu 12-04-18 13:58:47, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 04/12/2018 01:40 PM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > On 2/15/2018 12:22 PM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> >> On 2/12/2018 2:20 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> >>> These patches came out of the "[RFC] mmap(MAP_CONTIG)" discussions at:
> >>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/21f1ec96-2822-1189-1c95-79a2bb491571@oracle.com
> >>>
> >>> One suggestion in that thread was to create a friendlier interface that
> >>> could be used by drivers and others outside core mm code to allocate a
> >>> contiguous set of pages. The alloc_contig_range() interface is used for
> >>> this purpose today by CMA and gigantic page allocation. However, this is
> >>> not a general purpose interface. So, wrap alloc_contig_range() in the
> >>> more general interface:
> >>>
> >>> struct page *find_alloc_contig_pages(unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp, int nid,
> >>> nodemask_t *nodemask)
> >>>
> >>> No underlying changes are made to increase the likelihood that a contiguous
> >>> set of pages can be found and allocated. Therefore, any user of this
> >>> interface must deal with failure. The hope is that this interface will be
> >>> able to satisfy some use cases today.
> >>
> >> As discussed in another thread a new feature, Cache Pseudo-Locking,
> >> requires large contiguous regions. Until now I just exposed
> >> alloc_gigantic_page() to handle these allocations in my testing. I now
> >> moved to using find_alloc_contig_pages() as introduced here and all my
> >> tests passed. I do hope that an API supporting large contiguous regions
> >> become available.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for creating this.
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> >
> > Do you still intend on submitting these changes for inclusion?
> >
> > I would really like to use this work but unfortunately the original
> > patches submitted here do not apply anymore. I am encountering conflicts
> > with, for example:
> >
> > commit d9cc948f6fa1c3384037f500e0acd35f03850d15
> > Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > Date: Wed Jan 31 16:20:44 2018 -0800
> >
> > mm, hugetlb: integrate giga hugetlb more naturally to the allocation
> > path
> >
> > Thank you very much
>
> Thanks for the reminder Reinette.
>
> You were the only one to comment on the original proposal. In addition,
> my original use case may have gone away. So, this effort went to the
> bottom of my priority list.
>
> I am happy rebase the patches, but would really like to get additional
> comments. Allocation of hugetlbfs gigantic pages is the only existing
> user. Perhaps this is a natural progression of Michal's patch above
> as it moves all that special pfn range scanning out of hugetlb code.

Yes, that was and still is the plan. Turn the hackish contig allocator
into something more usable so I guess it would be in line with what
Reinette is after.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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