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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
	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>,
	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@huawei.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces
Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 10:47:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e47bf89c-cee7-3006-5c1b-c76f640c3e23@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o80eh65f.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal>

On 5/3/22 10:14, Alistair Popple wrote:
> I would certainly be interested in figuring out how HW could provide some sort
> of heatmap to identify which pages are hot and which processing unit is using
> them. Currently for these systems users have to manually assign memory policy to
> get any reasonable performance, both to disable NUMA balancing and make sure
> memory is allocated on the right node.

Autonuma-induced page faults are a total non-starter for lots of
workloads, even ignoring GPUs.  Basically anyone who is latency
sensitive stays far, far away from autonuma.

As for improving on page faults for data collection...

*Can* hardware provide this information?  Definitely.

Have hardware vendors been motivated enough to add hardware to do this?
 Nope, not yet.

Do you know anyone that works for any hardware companies? ;)

Seriously, though.  Folks at Intel _are_ thinking about this problem.
I'm hoping we have hardware some day to help lend a hand.  The more
hardware vendors that do this, the more likely it is that we'll have
good kernel code to consume data from the hardware.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-03 17:47 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 [this message]
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
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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