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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: gourry@gourry.net, hyeonggon.yoo@sk.com,
	ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, honggyu.kim@sk.com,
	rafael@kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	rakie.kim@sk.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	horen.chuang@linux.dev, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mm/mempolicy: Weighted Interleave Auto-tuning
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:20:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250207182009.7fc099c3074ad00338f25e0a@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250207201335.2105488-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>

On Fri,  7 Feb 2025 12:13:35 -0800 Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch introduces an auto-configuration mode for the interleave
> weights that aims to balance the two goals of setting node weights to be
> proportional to their bandwidths and keeping the weight values low.
> In order to perform the weight re-scaling, we use an internal
> "weightiness" value (fixed to 32) that defines interleave aggression.

Question please.  How does one determine whether a particular
configuration is working well?  To determine whether
manual-configuration-A is better than manual-configuration-B is better
than auto-configuration?

Leading to... how do we know that this patch makes the kernel better?


  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-08  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-07 20:13 Joshua Hahn
2025-02-08  2:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2025-02-08  5:06   ` Joshua Hahn
2025-02-12  0:17     ` Andrew Morton
2025-02-12 15:26       ` Joshua Hahn
2025-02-10  5:36   ` Gregory Price
2025-02-11  0:39     ` Andrew Morton
2025-02-11  2:14       ` Gregory Price
2025-02-08  6:51 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-02-12 15:18   ` Joshua Hahn
2025-02-12  2:49 ` Huang, Ying
2025-02-12 17:06   ` Joshua Hahn
2025-02-13  1:32     ` Huang, Ying
2025-02-14 15:45       ` Joshua Hahn
2025-02-16  0:40         ` Huang, Ying

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