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From: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	 Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	 Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Brice Goglin <brice.goglin@gmail.com>,
	 Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces
Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 00:19:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAPL-u8TtNoonOBDU1HZ-XPA31zsDvDAnO2xDigApypX-+jTYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c18e273b-f30c-da5c-581b-0cc4672f4481@intel.com>

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:20 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > The current memory tiering interface needs to be improved to address
> > several important use cases:
>
> FWIW, I totally agree.  We knew when that code went in that the default
> ordering was feeble.  There were patches to export the demotion order
> and allow it to be modified from userspace, but they were jettisoned at
> some point.
>
> > Memory tiering hierarchy is rebuilt upon hot-add or hot-remove of a
> > memory node, but is NOT rebuilt upon hot-add or hot-remove of a CPU
> > node.
>
> Yeah, this would be a welcome improvement if we can get there.
>
> > * /sys/devices/system/node/memory_tiers
> >
> >   Format: node list (one tier per line, in the tier order)
> >
> >   When read, list memory nodes by tiers.
>
> Nit: this would seems to violate the one-value-per-file sysfs guideline.
>  It can be fixed by making tiers actual objects, which would have some
> other nice benefits too.
>

Good point.  One tier per file should work as well.  It can be even
better to have a separate tier sub-tree.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-03  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-30  2:10 RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces Wei Xu
2022-04-30  3:59 ` Yang Shi
2022-04-30  6:37   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-06  0:01     ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-10  4:32       ` Wei Xu
2022-05-10  5:37         ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-10 11:38           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-05-11  5:30             ` Wei Xu
2022-05-11  7:34               ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-11  7:49               ` ying.huang
2022-05-11 17:07                 ` Wei Xu
2022-05-12  1:42                   ` ying.huang
2022-05-12  2:39                     ` Wei Xu
2022-05-12  3:13                       ` ying.huang
2022-05-12  3:37                         ` Wei Xu
2022-05-12  6:24                         ` Wei Xu
2022-05-06 18:56     ` Yang Shi
2022-05-09 14:32       ` Hesham Almatary
2022-05-10  3:24         ` Yang Shi
2022-05-10  9:59           ` Hesham Almatary
2022-05-10 12:10             ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-05-11  5:42               ` Wei Xu
2022-05-11  7:12                 ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-11  9:05                   ` Hesham Almatary
2022-05-12  3:02                     ` ying.huang
2022-05-12  4:40                   ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-05-12  4:49                     ` Wei Xu
2022-05-10  4:22         ` Wei Xu
2022-05-10 10:01           ` Hesham Almatary
2022-05-10 11:44           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-05-01 18:35   ` Dan Williams
2022-05-03  6:36     ` Wei Xu
2022-05-06 19:05     ` Yang Shi
2022-05-07  7:56     ` ying.huang
2022-05-01 17:58 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-05-02  1:04   ` David Rientjes
2022-05-02  7:23   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-05-03  2:07   ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-03  6:06   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-03 17:14   ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-03 17:47     ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-03 22:35       ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-03 23:54         ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-04  1:31           ` Wei Xu
2022-05-04 17:02             ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-05  6:35               ` Wei Xu
2022-05-05 14:24                 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-10  4:43                   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-02  6:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-05-03  7:02   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-02 15:20 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-03  7:19   ` Wei Xu [this message]
2022-05-03 19:12 ` Tim Chen
2022-05-05  7:02   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-05  8:57 ` ying.huang
2022-05-05 23:57 ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-06  0:25   ` Alistair Popple

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