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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2021-11-05 23:44:17 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-06 23:30:42 +0300 |
commit | 9e122cc1bdc4e8c8e2a97060ab85f9ee657a01a4 (patch) | |
tree | 2453ed7bc8b747d314d221283c5b572ccdb88c6d /Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | |
parent | a8db400f997c6e9ff505fb965a91fdb8427d366f (diff) | |
download | linux-9e122cc1bdc4e8c8e2a97060ab85f9ee657a01a4.tar.xz |
memory-hotplug.rst: document the "auto-movable" online policy
Commit e83a437faa62 ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce "auto-movable" online
policy") introduced a new memory online policy to automatically select a
zone for memory blocks to be onlined. It added a way to set the active
online policy and tunables for the auto-movable online policy.
Follow-up commits tweaked the "auto-movable" policy to also consider
memory device details when selecting zones for memory blocks to be
onlined.
Let's document the new toggles and how the two online policies we have
work.
[david@redhat.com: updates]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211011082058.6076-4-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930144117.23641-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst')
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1 files changed, 121 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index ee00b70dedde..0f56ecd8ac05 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -165,9 +165,8 @@ Or alternatively:: % echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/online -The kernel will select the target zone automatically, usually defaulting to -``ZONE_NORMAL`` unless ``movable_node`` has been specified on the kernel -command line or if the memory block would intersect the ZONE_MOVABLE already. +The kernel will select the target zone automatically, depending on the +configured ``online_policy``. One can explicitly request to associate an offline memory block with ZONE_MOVABLE by:: @@ -198,6 +197,9 @@ Auto-onlining can be enabled by writing ``online``, ``online_kernel`` or % echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks +Similarly to manual onlining, with ``online`` the kernel will select the +target zone automatically, depending on the configured ``online_policy``. + Modifying the auto-online behavior will only affect all subsequently added memory blocks only. @@ -393,11 +395,16 @@ command line parameters are relevant: ======================== ======================================================= ``memhp_default_state`` configure auto-onlining by essentially setting ``/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks``. -``movable_node`` configure automatic zone selection in the kernel. When - set, the kernel will default to ZONE_MOVABLE, unless - other zones can be kept contiguous. +``movable_node`` configure automatic zone selection in the kernel when + using the ``contig-zones`` online policy. When + set, the kernel will default to ZONE_MOVABLE when + onlining a memory block, unless other zones can be kept + contiguous. ======================== ======================================================= +See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for a more generic +description of these command line parameters. + Module Parameters ------------------ @@ -414,20 +421,114 @@ and they can be observed (and some even modified at runtime) via:: The following module parameters are currently defined: -======================== ======================================================= -``memmap_on_memory`` read-write: Allocate memory for the memmap from the - added memory block itself. Even if enabled, actual - support depends on various other system properties and - should only be regarded as a hint whether the behavior - would be desired. - - While allocating the memmap from the memory block - itself makes memory hotplug less likely to fail and - keeps the memmap on the same NUMA node in any case, it - can fragment physical memory in a way that huge pages - in bigger granularity cannot be formed on hotplugged - memory. -======================== ======================================================= +================================ =============================================== +``memmap_on_memory`` read-write: Allocate memory for the memmap from + the added memory block itself. Even if enabled, + actual support depends on various other system + properties and should only be regarded as a + hint whether the behavior would be desired. + + While allocating the memmap from the memory + block itself makes memory hotplug less likely + to fail and keeps the memmap on the same NUMA + node in any case, it can fragment physical + memory in a way that huge pages in bigger + granularity cannot be formed on hotplugged + memory. +``online_policy`` read-write: Set the basic policy used for + automatic zone selection when onlining memory + blocks without specifying a target zone. + ``contig-zones`` has been the kernel default + before this parameter was added. After an + online policy was configured and memory was + online, the policy should not be changed + anymore. + + When set to ``contig-zones``, the kernel will + try keeping zones contiguous. If a memory block + intersects multiple zones or no zone, the + behavior depends on the ``movable_node`` kernel + command line parameter: default to ZONE_MOVABLE + if set, default to the applicable kernel zone + (usually ZONE_NORMAL) if not set. + + When set to ``auto-movable``, the kernel will + try onlining memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE if + possible according to the configuration and + memory device details. With this policy, one + can avoid zone imbalances when eventually + hotplugging a lot of memory later and still + wanting to be able to hotunplug as much as + possible reliably, very desirable in + virtualized environments. This policy ignores + the ``movable_node`` kernel command line + parameter and isn't really applicable in + environments that require it (e.g., bare metal + with hotunpluggable nodes) where hotplugged + memory might be exposed via the + firmware-provided memory map early during boot + to the system instead of getting detected, + added and onlined later during boot (such as + done by virtio-mem or by some hypervisors + implementing emulated DIMMs). As one example, a + hotplugged DIMM will be onlined either + completely to ZONE_MOVABLE or completely to + ZONE_NORMAL, not a mixture. + As another example, as many memory blocks + belonging to a virtio-mem device will be + onlined to ZONE_MOVABLE as possible, + special-casing units of memory blocks that can + only get hotunplugged together. *This policy + does not protect from setups that are + problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and does not + change the zone of memory blocks dynamically + after they were onlined.* +``auto_movable_ratio`` read-write: Set the maximum MOVABLE:KERNEL + memory ratio in % for the ``auto-movable`` + online policy. Whether the ratio applies only + for the system across all NUMA nodes or also + per NUMA nodes depends on the + ``auto_movable_numa_aware`` configuration. + + All accounting is based on present memory pages + in the zones combined with accounting per + memory device. Memory dedicated to the CMA + allocator is accounted as MOVABLE, although + residing on one of the kernel zones. The + possible ratio depends on the actual workload. + The kernel default is "301" %, for example, + allowing for hotplugging 24 GiB to a 8 GiB VM + and automatically onlining all hotplugged + memory to ZONE_MOVABLE in many setups. The + additional 1% deals with some pages being not + present, for example, because of some firmware + allocations. + + Note that ZONE_NORMAL memory provided by one + memory device does not allow for more + ZONE_MOVABLE memory for a different memory + device. As one example, onlining memory of a + hotplugged DIMM to ZONE_NORMAL will not allow + for another hotplugged DIMM to get onlined to + ZONE_MOVABLE automatically. In contrast, memory + hotplugged by a virtio-mem device that got + onlined to ZONE_NORMAL will allow for more + ZONE_MOVABLE memory within *the same* + virtio-mem device. +``auto_movable_numa_aware`` read-write: Configure whether the + ``auto_movable_ratio`` in the ``auto-movable`` + online policy also applies per NUMA + node in addition to the whole system across all + NUMA nodes. The kernel default is "Y". + + Disabling NUMA awareness can be helpful when + dealing with NUMA nodes that should be + completely hotunpluggable, onlining the memory + completely to ZONE_MOVABLE automatically if + possible. + + Parameter availability depends on CONFIG_NUMA. +================================ =============================================== ZONE_MOVABLE ============ |