linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: migrate: Add new node demotion strategy

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Message-ID: <c0023ae8-0aff-0890-00fb-310d72130f8a@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Nov 2021 08:47:23 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        ziy@...dia.com, osalvador@...e.de, shy828301@...il.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: migrate: Add new node demotion strategy

On 11/4/21 7:51 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> Let's also try to do it with the existing node_demotion[] data
>> structure before we go adding more.
> To avoid cache ping-pong, I guess some kind of per-CPU data structure
> may be more suitable for interleaving among multiple nodes.

It would probably be better to just find something that's more
read-heavy.  Like, instead of keeping a strict round-robin, just
randomly select one of the notes to which you can round-robin.

That will scale naturally without having to worry about caching or fancy
per-cpu data structures.