From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <dhildenb@redhat.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/28] The new cgroup slab memory controller
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:09:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <579ae7c7-6ec2-e3b1-67d4-83d0f58ec3ed@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CK2bDAjykqdMrrOEp=NJ28Z4CALXWkHixNMc5tmRYVk75Eig@mail.gmail.com>
> For performance reasons during system updates/reboots we do not erase
> memory content. The memory content is erased only on power cycle,
> which we do not do in production.
>
> Once we hot-remove the memory, we convert it back into DAXFS PMEM
> device, format it into EXT4, mount it as DAX file system, and allow
> programs to serialize their states to it so they can read it back
> after the reboot.
>
> During startup we mount pmem, programs read the state back, and after
> that we hotplug the PMEM DAX as a movable zone. This way during normal
> runtime we have 8G available to programs.
>
Thanks for sharing the workflow - while it sounds somewhat sub-optimal,
I guess it gets the job done using existing tools / mechanisms.
(I remember the persistent tmpfs over kexec RFC, which tries to tackle
it by introducing something new)
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-03 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-27 17:34 [PATCH v2 00/28] The new cgroup slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] mm: kmem: cleanup (__)memcg_kmem_charge_memcg() arguments Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] mm: kmem: cleanup memcg_kmem_uncharge_memcg() arguments Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] mm: kmem: rename memcg_kmem_(un)charge() into memcg_kmem_(un)charge_page() Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] mm: kmem: switch to nr_pages in (__)memcg_kmem_charge_memcg() Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] mm: memcg/slab: cache page number in memcg_(un)charge_slab() Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] mm: kmem: rename (__)memcg_kmem_(un)charge_memcg() to __memcg_kmem_(un)charge() Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] mm: memcg/slab: introduce mem_cgroup_from_obj() Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 16:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] mm: fork: fix kernel_stack memcg stats for various stack implementations Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 16:12 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] mm: memcg/slab: rename __mod_lruvec_slab_state() into __mod_lruvec_obj_state() Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 16:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] mm: memcg: introduce mod_lruvec_memcg_state() Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 17:39 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 17:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] mm: vmstat: use s32 for vm_node_stat_diff in struct per_cpu_nodestat Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 17:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-03 18:25 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 20:34 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-03 22:28 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 22:39 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-04 1:44 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] mm: vmstat: convert slab vmstat counter to bytes Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 19:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] mm: memcg/slab: allocate obj_cgroups for non-root slab pages Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 18:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-03 18:34 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 20:46 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-03 21:19 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 22:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] mm: memcg/slab: save obj_cgroup for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 19:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] mm: memcg/slab: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all memory cgroups Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 19:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-03 20:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-03 22:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-03 22:38 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-04 1:15 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-04 2:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-04 4:35 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-04 18:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-05 15:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memcg_kmem_get_cache() Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate slab_root_caches Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] mm: memcg/slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo() Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] tools/cgroup: add slabinfo.py tool Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 27/28] tools/cgroup: make slabinfo.py compatible with new slab controller Roman Gushchin
2020-01-30 2:17 ` Bharata B Rao
2020-01-30 2:44 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-01-31 22:24 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-02-12 5:21 ` Bharata B Rao
2020-02-12 20:42 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-01-27 17:34 ` [PATCH v2 28/28] kselftests: cgroup: add kernel memory accounting tests Roman Gushchin
2020-01-30 2:06 ` [PATCH v2 00/28] The new cgroup slab memory controller Bharata B Rao
2020-01-30 2:41 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-12 23:16 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-08-12 23:18 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-08-13 0:04 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-13 0:31 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-08-28 16:47 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-01 5:28 ` Bharata B Rao
2020-09-01 12:52 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-02 6:23 ` Bharata B Rao
2020-09-02 12:34 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-02 9:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-09-02 10:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-02 12:42 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-02 13:50 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-02 14:20 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-03 18:09 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-09-02 11:26 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-02 12:51 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-02 13:51 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-02 11:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-02 12:53 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-09-02 13:52 ` Michal Hocko
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