On 2015/12/16 2:05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Currently, all newly added memory blocks remain in 'offline' state unless
> someone onlines them, some linux distributions carry special udev rules
> like:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline",
> ATTR{state}="online"
>
> to make this happen automatically. This is not a great solution for virtual
> machines where memory hotplug is being used to address high memory pressure
> situations as such onlining is slow and a userspace process doing this
> (udev) has a chance of being killed by the OOM killer as it will probably
> require to allocate some memory.
>
> Introduce default policy for the newly added memory blocks in
> /sys/devices/system/memory/hotplug_autoonline file with two possible
> values: "offline" (the default) which preserves the current behavior and
> "online" which causes all newly added memory blocks to go online as
> soon as they're added.
>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Tang Chen <tangc...@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxi...@huawei.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <k...@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuzn...@redhat.com>
> ---
> - I was able to find previous attempts to fix the issue, e.g.:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137425951924598&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=127186488905382
> but I'm not completely sure why it didn't work out and the solution
> I suggest is not 'smart enough', thus 'RFC'.
+ CC:
yanxiaof...@inspur.com
liuchangsh...@inspur.com
Hi Vitaly,
Why not use udev rule? I think it can online pages automatically.
Thanks,
Xishi Qiu
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