Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] mm: Hot page tracking and promotion infrastructure

[Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>]

On 13-Jan-26 7:54 PM, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 03:44:14PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is v4 of page hotness tracking and promotion sub-system pghot.
>>
> 
> Just fyi, we haven't started real workload testing, but we're setting
> up the process soon.  Just wanted to let you know it's on the radar.
> 
> We want to test this at the same time with some fixes we've been
> working on for multi-tenant fairness in the demotion/reclaim path.

Thanks Gregory for taking this up for testing.

I am working on v5 with following enhancements:

1. Default mode: 1 byte per PFN for storing hotness info. NID isn't stored but
promotion will be done to a default toptier node(specifiable via sysfs/debugs).
Frequency and time are stored but due to paucity of bits, I will have to use
some sort of bucketing scheme for storing time like how current hot page
promotion logic does.

2. Precision mode: 4 bytes or 32bits per PFN where NID is stored in addition to
time and frequency.

2 is completed and 1 is in the works. Once I get it working correctly, I will
post v5.

Since there were a few bugs in v4, I think it makes sense to start testing on v5
itself.

Regards,
Bharata.