linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v0 2/2] mm: sched: Batch-migrate misplaced pages

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Message-ID: <AE28D27C-58C2-41A4-B553-50049E963745@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 12:24:35 -0400
From: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0 2/2] mm: sched: Batch-migrate misplaced pages

On 22 May 2025, at 12:11, David Hildenbrand wrote:

> On 21.05.25 10:02, Bharata B Rao wrote:
>> Currently the folios identified as misplaced by the NUMA
>> balancing sub-system are migrated one by one from the NUMA
>> hint fault handler as and when they are identified as
>> misplaced.
>>
>> Instead of such singe folio migrations, batch them and
>> migrate them at once.
>>
>> Identified misplaced folios are isolated and stored in
>> a per-task list. A new task_work is queued from task tick
>> handler to migrate them in batches. Migration is done
>> periodically or if pending number of isolated foios exceeds
>> a threshold.
>
> That means that these pages are effectively unmovable for other purposes (CMA, compaction, long-term pinning, whatever) until that list was drained.
>
> Bad.

Probably we can mark these pages and when others want to migrate the page,
get_new_page() just looks at the page's target node and get a new page from
the target node.

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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi