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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "mhocko@suse.com" <mhocko@suse.com>,
	"mgorman@techsingularity.net" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	"riel@surriel.com" <riel@surriel.com>,
	"hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"Busch, Keith" <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	"Du, Fan" <fan.du@intel.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm: vmscan: demote anon DRAM pages to PMEM node
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:45:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190328224549.GA11100@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <599849e6-05b6-1e4d-7578-5cf8825963d2@linux.alibaba.com>

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 02:59:30PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> Yes, it still could fail. I can't tell which way is better for now. I 
> just thought scanning another round then migrating should be still 
> faster than swapping off the top of my head.

I think it depends on the relative capacities between your primary and
migration tiers and how it's used. Applications may allocate and pin
directly out of pmem if they wish, so it's not a dedicated fallback
memory space like swap.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-28 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-23  4:44 [RFC PATCH 0/10] Another Approach to Use PMEM as NUMA Node Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: control memory placement by nodemask for two tier main memory Yang Shi
2019-03-23 17:21   ` Dan Williams
2019-03-25 19:28     ` Yang Shi
2019-03-25 23:18       ` Dan Williams
2019-03-25 23:36         ` Yang Shi
2019-03-25 23:42           ` Dan Williams
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: mempolicy: introduce MPOL_HYBRID policy Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: mempolicy: promote page to DRAM for MPOL_HYBRID Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: numa: promote pages to DRAM when it is accessed twice Yang Shi
2019-03-29  0:31   ` kbuild test robot
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: page_alloc: make find_next_best_node could skip DRAM node Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: vmscan: demote anon DRAM pages to PMEM node Yang Shi
2019-03-23  6:03   ` Zi Yan
2019-03-25 21:49     ` Yang Shi
2019-03-24 22:20   ` Keith Busch
2019-03-25 19:49     ` Yang Shi
2019-03-27  0:35       ` Keith Busch
2019-03-27  3:41         ` Yang Shi
2019-03-27 13:08           ` Keith Busch
2019-03-27 17:00             ` Zi Yan
2019-03-27 17:05               ` Dave Hansen
2019-03-27 17:48                 ` Zi Yan
2019-03-27 18:00                   ` Dave Hansen
2019-03-27 20:37                     ` Zi Yan
2019-03-27 20:42                       ` Dave Hansen
2019-03-28 21:59             ` Yang Shi
2019-03-28 22:45               ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: vmscan: add page demotion counter Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: numa: add page promotion counter Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 09/10] doc: add description for MPOL_HYBRID mode Yang Shi
2019-03-23  4:44 ` [PATCH 10/10] doc: elaborate the PMEM allocation rule Yang Shi
2019-03-25 16:15 ` [RFC PATCH 0/10] Another Approach to Use PMEM as NUMA Node Brice Goglin
2019-03-25 16:56   ` Dan Williams
2019-03-25 17:45     ` Brice Goglin
2019-03-25 19:29       ` Dan Williams
2019-03-25 23:09         ` Brice Goglin
2019-03-25 23:37           ` Dan Williams
2019-03-26 12:19             ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-03-25 20:04   ` Yang Shi
2019-03-26 13:58 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-26 18:33   ` Yang Shi
2019-03-26 18:37     ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-27  2:58       ` Yang Shi
2019-03-27  9:01         ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-27 17:34           ` Dan Williams
2019-03-27 18:59             ` Yang Shi
2019-03-27 20:09               ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-28  2:09                 ` Yang Shi
2019-03-28  6:58                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-28 18:58                     ` Yang Shi
2019-03-28 19:12                       ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-28 19:40                         ` Yang Shi
2019-03-28 20:40                           ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-28  8:21                   ` Dan Williams
2019-03-27 20:14               ` Dave Hansen
2019-03-27 20:35             ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-03-27 20:40               ` Dave Hansen

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