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mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant

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It's not completely obvious why we have to shuffle the complete zone -
introduced in commit e900a918b0 ("mm: shuffle initial free memory to
improve memory-side-cache utilization") - because some sort of shuffling
is already performed when onlining pages via __free_one_page(), placing
MAX_ORDER-1 pages either to the head or the tail of the freelist.  Let's
document why we have to shuffle the complete zone when exposing larger,
contiguous physical memory areas to the buddy.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624094741.9918-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Hildenbrand 2020-08-06 23:25:35 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -831,6 +831,14 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += onlined_pages;
pgdat_resize_unlock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
/*
* When exposing larger, physically contiguous memory areas to the
* buddy, shuffling in the buddy (when freeing onlined pages, putting
* them either to the head or the tail of the freelist) is only helpful
* for maintaining the shuffle, but not for creating the initial
* shuffle. Shuffle the whole zone to make sure the just onlined pages
* are properly distributed across the whole freelist.
*/
shuffle_zone(zone);
node_states_set_node(nid, &arg);