Hi Michal,

Many thanks for reviewing the whole patchset! We will check them.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Please use hugetlb prefix to make it explicit that this is hugetlb
> related.
> 
> On Wed 17-03-21 11:40:08, Feng Tang wrote:
> > From: Ben Widawsky <ben.widaw...@intel.com>
> > 
> > Implement the missing huge page allocation functionality while obeying
> > the preferred node semantics.
> > 
> > This uses a fallback mechanism to try multiple preferred nodes first,
> > and then all other nodes. It cannot use the helper function that was
> > introduced because huge page allocation already has its own helpers and
> > it was more LOC, and effort to try to consolidate that.
> > 
> > The weirdness is MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY can't be called yet because it is
> > part of the UAPI we haven't yet exposed. Instead of make that define
> > global, it's simply changed with the UAPI patch.
> > 
> > [ feng: add NOWARN flag, and skip the direct reclaim to speedup allocation
> >   in some case ]
> > 
> > Link: 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-12-ben.widaw...@intel.com
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widaw...@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.t...@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/hugetlb.c   | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  mm/mempolicy.c |  3 ++-
> >  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index 8fb42c6..9dfbfa3 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct 
> > hstate *h,
> >                             unsigned long address, int avoid_reserve,
> >                             long chg)
> >  {
> > -   struct page *page;
> > +   struct page *page = NULL;
> >     struct mempolicy *mpol;
> >     gfp_t gfp_mask;
> >     nodemask_t *nodemask;
> > @@ -1126,7 +1126,17 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct 
> > hstate *h,
> >  
> >     gfp_mask = htlb_alloc_mask(h);
> >     nid = huge_node(vma, address, gfp_mask, &mpol, &nodemask);
> > -   page = dequeue_huge_page_nodemask(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
> > +   if (mpol->mode != MPOL_BIND && nodemask) { /* AKA MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY */
> 
> Please use MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY explicitly here.
> 
> > +           gfp_t gfp_mask1 = gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN;
> > +
> > +           gfp_mask1 &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
> > +           page = dequeue_huge_page_nodemask(h,
> > +                           gfp_mask1, nid, nodemask);
> > +           if (!page)
> > +                   page = dequeue_huge_page_nodemask(h, gfp_mask, nid, 
> > NULL);
> > +   } else {
> > +           page = dequeue_huge_page_nodemask(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
> > +   }
> >     if (page && !avoid_reserve && vma_has_reserves(vma, chg)) {
> >             SetHPageRestoreReserve(page);
> >             h->resv_huge_pages--;
> 
> __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM handing is not needed here. dequeue_huge_page_nodemask 
> only uses gfp mask to get zone and cpusets constraines. So the above
> should have simply been
>       if (mpol->mode == MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY) {
>               page = dequeue_huge_page_nodemask(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
>               if (page)
>                       goto got_page;
>               /* fallback to all nodes */
>               nodemask = NULL;
>       }
>       page = dequeue_huge_page_nodemask(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
> got_page:
>       if (page ...)

You are right, no need to change the gfp_mask here.


> > @@ -1883,7 +1893,17 @@ struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol(struct 
> > hstate *h,
> >     nodemask_t *nodemask;
> >  
> >     nid = huge_node(vma, addr, gfp_mask, &mpol, &nodemask);
> > -   page = alloc_surplus_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
> > +   if (mpol->mode != MPOL_BIND && nodemask) { /* AKA MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY */
> > +           gfp_t gfp_mask1 = gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN;
> > +
> > +           gfp_mask1 &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
> > +           page = alloc_surplus_huge_page(h,
> > +                           gfp_mask1, nid, nodemask);
> > +           if (!page)
> > +                   alloc_surplus_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid, NULL);
> > +   } else {
> > +           page = alloc_surplus_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
> > +   }
> 
> And here similar
>       if (mpol->mode == MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY) {
>               page = alloc_surplus_huge_page(h, (gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN) & 
> ~(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM), nodemask);
>               if (page)
>                       goto got_page;
>               /* fallback to all nodes */
>               nodemask = NULL;
>       }
>       page = alloc_surplus_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nodemask);
> got_page:
> >     mpol_cond_put(mpol);
> 
> You can have a dedicated gfp mask here if you prefer of course but I
> calling out MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY explicitly will make the code easier to
> read.

Will follow. The "if (mpol->mode != MPOL_BIND && nodemask) {
/* AKA MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY *a/ " and "MPOL_MAX + 1" will be replaced
in the 12/13 patch.

Thanks,
Feng

> >     return page;
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

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