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Message-Id: <20190130064856.GB17937@rapoport-lnx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:48:56 +0200
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] mm: Shuffle initial free memory to improve
memory-side-cache utilization
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:02:16PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of
> a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform
> capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC
> (high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In
> that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to
> higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going to
> be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in
> front of higher latency persistent memory [1].
[ ... ]
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> ---
> include/linux/list.h | 17 ++++
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 4 +
> include/linux/shuffle.h | 45 +++++++++++
> init/Kconfig | 23 ++++++
> mm/Makefile | 7 ++
> mm/memblock.c | 1
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 3 +
> mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +-
> mm/shuffle.c | 188 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 9 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/shuffle.h
> create mode 100644 mm/shuffle.c
...
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 022d4cbb3618..c0cfbfae4a03 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> #include <linux/poison.h>
> #include <linux/pfn.h>
> #include <linux/debugfs.h>
> +#include <linux/shuffle.h>
Nit: does not seem to be required
> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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