[PATCH 2/2] mm: memory_hotplug: drop memoryless node from fallback lists

From: Qi Zheng
Date: Wed Feb 15 2023 - 10:25:00 EST


In offline_pages(), if a node becomes memoryless, we
will clear its N_MEMORY state by calling node_states_clear_node().
But we do this after rebuilding the zonelists by calling
build_all_zonelists(), which will cause this memoryless node to
still be in the fallback list of other nodes. This will incur
some runtime overhead.

To drop memoryless node from fallback lists in this case, just
call node_states_clear_node() before calling build_all_zonelists().

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index fd40f7e9f176..1a5e5e8f7e13 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1931,12 +1931,12 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
/* reinitialise watermarks and update pcp limits */
init_per_zone_wmark_min();

+ node_states_clear_node(node, &arg);
if (!populated_zone(zone)) {
zone_pcp_reset(zone);
build_all_zonelists(NULL);
}

- node_states_clear_node(node, &arg);
if (arg.status_change_nid >= 0) {
kcompactd_stop(node);
kswapd_stop(node);
--
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