Re: [PATCH 0/4] Extend migrate_misplaced_page() to support batch migration

["Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Currently, on our ARM servers with NUMA enabled, we found the cross-die latency
> is a little larger that will significantly impact the workload's performance.
> So on ARM servers we will rely on the NUMA balancing to avoid the cross-die
> accessing. And I posted a patchset[1] to support speculative numa fault to
> improve the NUMA balancing's performance according to the principle of data
> locality. Moreover, thanks to Huang Ying's patchset[2], which introduced batch
> migration as a way to reduce the cost of TLB flush, and it will also benefit
> the migration of multiple pages all at once during NUMA balancing.
>
> So we plan to continue to support batch migration in do_numa_page() to improve
> the NUMA balancing's performance, but before adding complicated batch migration
> algorithm for NUMA balancing, some cleanup and preparation work need to do firstly,
> which are done in this patch set. In short, this patchset extends the
> migrate_misplaced_page() interface to support batch migration, and no functional
> changes intended.

Will these cleanup benefit anything except batching migration?  If not,
I suggest you to post the whole series.  In this way, people will be
more clear about why we need these cleanup.

--
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1639306956.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/t/#mc45929849b5d0e29b5fdd9d50425f8e95b8f2563
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230213123444.155149-1-ying.huang@intel.com/T/#u
>
> Baolin Wang (4):
>   mm: migrate: move migration validation into numa_migrate_prep()
>   mm: migrate: move the numamigrate_isolate_page() into do_numa_page()
>   mm: migrate: change migrate_misplaced_page() to support multiple pages
>     migration
>   mm: migrate: change to return the number of pages migrated
>     successfully
>
>  include/linux/migrate.h | 15 ++++++++---
>  mm/huge_memory.c        | 19 +++++++++++---
>  mm/memory.c             | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  mm/migrate.c            | 58 ++++++++---------------------------------
>  4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)