Re: RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces (v2)

From: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
To: Aneesh Kumar K V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
	 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 Brice Goglin <brice.goglin@gmail.com>,
	Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces (v2)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 10:27:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAPL-u-3-iOoSK07TE=gUN8a+TsXNNEiFaEArf7+zvTgxDJnRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <594046f8-9ab3-786a-fc48-8a61f1238f52@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 3:01 AM Aneesh Kumar K V
<aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/25/22 2:33 PM, Ying Huang wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 22:32 -0700, Wei Xu wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:24 AM Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 00:04 -0700, Wei Xu wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 8:06 PM Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
>
> ...
>
> >
> > OK.  Just to confirm.  Does this mean that we will have fixed device ID,
> > for example,
> >
> > GPU                   memtier255
> > DRAM (with CPU)               memtier0
> > PMEM                  memtier1
> >
> > When we add a new memtier, it can be memtier254, or memter2?  The rank
> > value will determine the real demotion order.
> >
> > I think you may need to send v3 to make sure everyone is at the same
> > page.
> >
>
> What we have implemented which we will send as RFC shortly is below.
>
> cd /sys/dekvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:~$ cd /sys/devices/system/
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system$ pwd
> /sys/devices/system
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system$ ls
> clockevents  clocksource  container  cpu  edac  memory  memtier  mpic
> node  power
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system$ cd memtier/
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier$ pwd
> /sys/devices/system/memtier
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier$ ls
> default_rank  max_rank  memtier1  power  uevent
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier$ cat default_rank
> 1
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier$ cat max_rank
> 3

For flexibility, we don't want max_rank to be interpreted as the
number of memory tiers.  Also, we want to leave spaces in rank values
to allow new memtiers to be inserted when needed.  So I'd suggest to
make max_rank a much larger value (e.g. 255).

> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier$ cd memtier1/
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier1$ ls
> nodelist  power  rank  subsystem  uevent
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier1$ cat nodelist
> 0-3
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier1$ cat rank
> 1
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier1$ cd
> ../../node/node1/
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/node/node1$ cat memtier
> 1
> kvaneesh@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/node/node1$
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/node/node1# echo 0 > memtier
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/node/node1# cat memtier
> 0
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/node/node1# cd ../../memtier/
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier# ls
> default_rank  max_rank  memtier0  memtier1  power  uevent
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier# cd memtier0/
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier0# cat nodelist
> 1
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier0# cat rank
> 0

It looks like the example here demonstrates the dynamic creation of
memtier0.  If so, how is the rank of memtier0 determined?  If we want
to support creating new memtiers at runtime, I think an explicit
interface that specifies both device ID and rank is preferred to avoid
implicit dependencies between device IDs and ranks.

> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier0# echo 4 > rank
> bash: rank: Permission denied
> root@ubuntu-guest:/sys/devices/system/memtier/memtier0#