linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched, numa, mm: Count WS scanning against present PTEs, not virtual memory ranges

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:37:43 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched, numa, mm: Count WS scanning against present
 PTEs, not virtual memory ranges

On 11/14/2012 03:50 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
>
> By accounting against the present PTEs, scanning speed reflects the
> actual present (mapped) memory.
>
> For this we modify mm/mprotect.c::change_protection() to return the
> number of ptes modified. (No change in functionality.)

We need to figure out what we actually want here.

Do we want to mark 256MB as non-present, or do we want to leave
behind 256MB of non-present (NUMA) memory? :)

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