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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: "Du, Fan" <fan.du@intel.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com" <xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, page_alloc: Introduce ZONELIST_FALLBACK_SAME_TYPE fallback list
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:09:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190425080936.GP12751@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A90DA2E42F8AE43BC4A093BF067884825785F50@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Thu 25-04-19 07:55:58, Du, Fan wrote:
> >> PMEM is good for frequently read accessed page, e.g. page cache(implicit
> >> page
> >> request), or user space data base (explicit page request)
> >> For now this patch create GFP_SAME_NODE_TYPE for such cases, additional
> >> Implementation will be followed up.
> >
> >Then simply configure that NUMA node as movable and you get these
> >allocations for any movable allocation. I am not really convinced a new
> >gfp flag is really justified.
> 
> Case 1: frequently write and/or read accessed page deserved to DRAM

NUMA balancing

> Case 2: frequently read accessed page deserved to PMEM

memory reclaim to move those pages to a more distant node (e.g. a PMEM).

Btw. none of the above is a static thing you would easily know at the
allocation time.

Please spare some time reading surrounding discussions - e.g.
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1554955019-29472-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-25  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-25  1:21 [RFC PATCH 0/5] New fallback workflow for heterogeneous memory system Fan Du
2019-04-25  1:21 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] acpi/numa: memorize NUMA node type from SRAT table Fan Du
2019-04-25  1:21 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mmzone: new pgdat flags for DRAM and PMEM Fan Du
2019-04-25  1:21 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] x86,numa: update numa node type Fan Du
2019-04-25  1:21 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm, page alloc: build fallback list on per node type basis Fan Du
2019-04-25  1:21 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, page_alloc: Introduce ZONELIST_FALLBACK_SAME_TYPE fallback list Fan Du
     [not found]   ` <a0728518-a067-4f89-a8ae-3fa279f768f2.xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com>
2019-04-25  3:26     ` Xishi Qiu
2019-04-25  7:45       ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25  6:38   ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-25  7:43     ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25  7:48       ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-25  7:55         ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25  8:09           ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-04-25  8:20             ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25  8:43               ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-25  9:18                 ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25  6:37 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] New fallback workflow for heterogeneous memory system Michal Hocko
2019-04-25  7:41   ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25  7:53     ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-25  8:05       ` Du, Fan
2019-04-25 15:43         ` Dan Williams
2019-04-26  2:40           ` Du, Fan

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