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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:12:10 +0200
Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:58:57 +0200, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, you may not like this..but how about following kind of interface ?
> >
> > Now, memoyr hotplug supports following operation to free and _isolate_
> > memory region.
> > # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
> >
> > Then, a region of memory will be isolated. (This succeeds if there are free
> > memory.)
> >
> > Add a new interface.
> >
> > % echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
> > # extract memory from System RAM and make them invisible from buddy allocator.
> >
> > % echo cma > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
> > # move invisible memory to cma.
>
> At this point I need to say that I have no experience with hotplug memory but
> I think that for this to make sense the regions of memory would have to be
> smaller. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the above would convert
> a region of sizes in order of GiBs to use for CMA.
>

Now, x86's section size is
==
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
# ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 29
# define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS 36
# define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 36
# else
# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 26
# define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS 32
# define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 32
# endif
#else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 27 /* matt - 128 is convenient right now */
# define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS 44
# define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 46
#endif
==

128MB...too big ? But it's depend on config.

IBM's ppc guys used 16MB section, and recently, a new interface to shrink
the number of /sys files are added, maybe usable.

Something good with this approach will be you can create "cma" memory
before installing driver.

But yes, complicated and need some works.

Bye,
-Kame

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