linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	"Du, Fan" <fan.du@intel.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/10] Another Approach to Use PMEM as NUMA Node
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:40:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cb4e229-a1a9-e236-f806-926351a917cc@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190327203520.GU10344@bombadil.infradead.org>

On 3/27/19 1:35 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> pmem1 --- node1 --- node2 --- pmem2
>             |   \ /   |
>             |    X    |
>             |   / \   |
> pmem3 --- node3 --- node4 --- pmem4
> 
> which I could actually see someone building with normal DRAM, and we
> should probably handle the same way as pmem; for a process running on
> node3, allocate preferentially from node3, then pmem3, then other nodes,
> then other pmems.

That makes sense.  But, it might _also_ make sense to fill up all DRAM
first before using any pmem.  That could happen if the NUMA interconnect
is really fast and pmem is really slow.

Basically, with the current patches we are depending on the firmware to
"nicely" enumerate the topology and we're keeping the behavior that we
end up with, for now, whatever it might be.

Now, let's sit back and see how nice the firmware is. :)

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-27 20:40 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
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 [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7cb4e229-a1a9-e236-f806-926351a917cc@intel.com \
    --to=dave.hansen@intel.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
    --cc=fan.du@intel.com \
    --cc=fengguang.wu@intel.com \
    --cc=hannes@cmpxchg.org \
    --cc=keith.busch@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mgorman@techsingularity.net \
    --cc=mhocko@kernel.org \
    --cc=riel@surriel.com \
    --cc=willy@infradead.org \
    --cc=yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com \
    --cc=ying.huang@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).