From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
ying.huang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce multi-preference mempolicy
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:13:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210715021303.GA66164@shbuild999.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210714171540.7cb9e221d683b531928b71f5@linux-foundation.org>
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for reviewing!
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 05:15:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:09:28 +0800 Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > This patch series introduces the concept of the MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mempolicy.
> > This mempolicy mode can be used with either the set_mempolicy(2) or mbind(2)
> > interfaces. Like the MPOL_PREFERRED interface, it allows an application to set a
> > preference for nodes which will fulfil memory allocation requests. Unlike the
> > MPOL_PREFERRED mode, it takes a set of nodes. Like the MPOL_BIND interface, it
> > works over a set of nodes. Unlike MPOL_BIND, it will not cause a SIGSEGV or
> > invoke the OOM killer if those preferred nodes are not available.
>
> Do we have any real-world testing which demonstrates the benefits of
> all of this?
We have done some internal tests, and are actively working with some external
customer on using this new 'prefer-many' policy, as they have different
types of memory (fast DRAM and slower Persistent memory) in system, and their
program wants to set clear preference for several NUMA nodes, to better deploy
the huge application data before running the application.
We have met another issue that customer wanted to run a docker container
while binding it to 2 persistent memory nodes, which always failed. At that
time we tried 2 hack pachtes to solve it.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1604470210-124827-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1604470210-124827-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com/
And that use case can be easily achieved with this new policy.
Thanks,
Feng
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-15 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-12 8:09 [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce multi-preference mempolicy Feng Tang
2021-07-12 8:09 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] mm/mempolicy: Add MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY for multiple preferred nodes Feng Tang
2021-07-28 12:31 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-28 14:11 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-28 16:12 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-29 7:09 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-29 13:38 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-29 15:12 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-29 16:21 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-30 3:05 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-30 6:36 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-30 7:18 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-30 7:38 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 8:11 ` Feng Tang
2021-08-02 11:14 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 11:33 ` Feng Tang
2021-08-02 11:47 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-12 8:09 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] mm/memplicy: add page allocation function for MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy Feng Tang
2021-07-28 12:42 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-28 15:18 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-28 15:25 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-28 16:15 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-28 16:14 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-12 8:09 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] mm/mempolicy: enable page allocation for MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY for general cases Feng Tang
2021-07-12 8:09 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY Feng Tang
2021-07-21 20:49 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-07-22 8:11 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-22 9:42 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-22 16:21 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-07-12 8:09 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] mm/mempolicy: Advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY Feng Tang
2021-07-28 12:47 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-28 13:41 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-12 8:09 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies Feng Tang
2021-07-28 12:51 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-28 13:50 ` Feng Tang
2021-07-15 0:15 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce multi-preference mempolicy Andrew Morton
2021-07-15 2:13 ` Feng Tang [this message]
2021-07-15 18:49 ` Dave Hansen
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