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

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Message-ID: <877ddjxuo9.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:12:06 +0800
From:   "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        <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

Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> writes:

> 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.

Yes.  That sounds good.  And per-CPU data structure is used inside
random API too :-)

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying