linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 6/7] mm/demotion: Add support for removing node from demotion memory tiers

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Message-ID: <2316b2f571cd812b5c2e4335c2ed51a227005098.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:43:38 +0800
From:   Ying Huang <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Brice Goglin <brice.goglin@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@...wei.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
        Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 6/7] mm/demotion: Add support for removing node
 from demotion memory tiers

On Fri, 2022-05-27 at 17:55 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This patch adds the special string "none" as a supported memtier value
> that we can use to remove a specific node from being using as demotion target.
> 
> For ex:
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1# cat memtier
> 1
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1# cat ../../memtier/memtier1/nodelist
> 1-3
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1# echo none > memtier
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1#
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1# cat memtier
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1# cat ../../memtier/memtier1/nodelist
> 2-3
> :/sys/devices/system/node/node1#

Why do you need this?  Do you have some real users?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying


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