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hot page >>> promotion. >>> >>> At the heart of this subsystem is a kernel daemon named kpromoted that >>> does the following: >>> >>> 1. Exposes an API that other subsystems which detect/generate memory >>>     access information can use to inform the daemon about memory >>>     accesses from lower memory tiers. >>> 2. Maintains the list of hot pages and attempts to promote them to >>>     toptiers. >>> >>> Currently I have added AMD IBS driver as one source that provides >>> page access information as an example. This driver feeds info to >>> kpromoted in this RFC patchset. More sources were discussed in a >>> similar context here at [1]. >>> >> >> Is hot page promotion mandated or good to have? > > If you look at the current hot page promotion (NUMAB=2) logic, IIUC an accessed lower tier page is directly promoted to toptier if enough space exists in the toptier node. In such cases, it doesn't even bother about the hot threshold (measure of how recently it was accessed) or migration rate limiting. This tells me that it in a tiered memory setup, having an accessed page in toptier is preferrable. > I'll review the patches, I don't agree with toptier, I think DRAM is the right tier >> Memory tiers today >> are a function of latency and bandwidth, specifically in >> mt_aperf_to_distance() >> >> adist ~ k * R(B)/R(L) where R(x) is relatively performance of the >> memory w.r.t DRAM. Do we want hot pages in the top tier all the time? >> Are we optimizing for bandwidth or latency? > > When memory tiering code converts BW and latency numbers into an opaque metric adistance based on which the node gets placed at an appropriate position in the tiering hierarchy, I wonder if it is still possible to say if we are optimizing for bandwidth or latency separately? I think we need a notion of that, just higher tiers may not be right. IOW, I think we need to promote to at-most the DRAM tier, not above it. Balbir Singh