From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
Brice Goglin <brice.goglin@gmail.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@linux.ibm.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/13] mm/demotion: Add support for explicit memory tiers
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:16:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yqc4nSEuso+YmPE7@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a88bd25fc77252dee4f895f3a9b2c1f6ebb5169e.camel@intel.com>
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:30:08PM +0800, Ying Huang wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-06-13 at 09:01 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
> > On 6/13/22 8:52 AM, Ying Huang wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2022-06-10 at 19:22 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > > +config TIERED_MEMORY
> > > > + def_bool NUMA
> > > > +
> > >
> > > As Yang pointed out, why not just use CONFIG_NUMA? I suspect the
> > > added value of CONIFIG_TIRED_MEMORY.
> >
> > I decided to use TIERED_MEMORY to bring more clarity. It should be same
> > now that we have moved CONFIG_MIGRATION dependencies to runtime. IMHO
> > having CONFIG_TIERED_MEMORY is better than using CONFIG_NUMA.
>
> I don't think CONFIG_TIERED_MEMORY bring no much value. It's better
> to use CONFIG_NUMA directly. But this is just my opinion.
I agree. As long as it's always built with CONFIG_NUMA, it's simply
NUMA code. Easy enough to modularize it later if somebody really wants
this to be configurable separately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-13 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-10 13:52 [PATCH v6 00/13] mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 01/13] mm/demotion: Add support for explicit memory tiers Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-13 3:22 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-13 3:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-06-13 5:30 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-13 13:16 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2022-06-13 13:28 ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-06-14 8:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-14 15:13 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 02/13] mm/demotion: Move memory demotion related code Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 03/13] mm/demotion: Return error on write to numa_demotion sysfs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-13 3:26 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-13 3:35 ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-06-13 5:33 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-13 5:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-06-14 8:40 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 04/13] mm/demotion/dax/kmem: Set node's memory tier to MEMORY_TIER_PMEM Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-13 6:59 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-13 7:05 ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 05/13] mm/demotion: Build demotion targets based on explicit memory tiers Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 06/13] mm/demotion: Expose memory tier details via sysfs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 07/13] mm/demotion: Add per node memory tier attribute to sysfs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 08/13] mm/demotion: Add support for memory tier creation from userspace Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 09/13] mm/demotion: Add pg_data_t member to track node memory tier details Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-13 7:07 ` Ying Huang
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 10/13] mm/demotion: Demote pages according to allocation fallback order Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 11/13] mm/demotion: Update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 12/13] mm/demotion: Add documentation for memory tiering Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v6 13/13] mm/demotion: Add sysfs ABI documentation Aneesh Kumar K.V
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-06-10 13:49 [PATCH v6 00/13] mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-06-10 13:49 ` [PATCH v6 01/13] mm/demotion: Add support for explicit memory tiers Aneesh Kumar K.V
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