linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 00/21] PMEM NUMA node and hotness accounting/migration

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Date:   Fri, 28 Dec 2018 21:15:42 +0800
From:   Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Fan Du <fan.du@...el.com>, Yao Yuan <yuan.yao@...el.com>,
        Peng Dong <dongx.peng@...el.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Liu Jingqi <jingqi.liu@...el.com>,
        Dong Eddie <eddie.dong@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 00/21] PMEM NUMA node and hotness
 accounting/migration

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 01:15:15PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Fri 28-12-18 17:42:08, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>[...]
>> Those look unnecessary complexities for this post. This v2 patchset
>> mainly fulfills our first milestone goal: a minimal viable solution
>> that's relatively clean to backport. Even when preparing for new
>> upstreamable versions, it may be good to keep it simple for the
>> initial upstream inclusion.
>
>On the other hand this is creating a new NUMA semantic and I would like
>to have something long term thatn let's throw something in now and care
>about long term later. So I would really prefer to talk about long term
>plans first and only care about implementation details later.

That makes good sense. FYI here are the several in-house patches that
try to leverage (but not yet integrate with) NUMA balancing. The last
one is brutal force hacking. They obviously break original NUMA
balancing logic.

Thanks,
Fengguang

View attachment "0074-migrate-set-PROT_NONE-on-the-PTEs-and-let-NUMA-balan.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (1333 bytes)

View attachment "0075-migrate-consolidate-MPOL_MF_SW_YOUNG-behaviors.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (3515 bytes)

View attachment "0076-mempolicy-force-NUMA-balancing.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (1513 bytes)