Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-07-01 Thread Dave Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 7/1/20 7:24 AM, Zi Yan wrote: > On 30 Jun 2020, at 15:31, Dave Hansen wrote: >>> BTW is this proposal only for systems having multi-tiers of >>> memory? Can a multi-node DRAM-only system take advantage of >>> this proposal? For example I have a

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-07-01 Thread Zi Yan
On 30 Jun 2020, at 15:31, Dave Hansen wrote: > > >> BTW is this proposal only for systems having multi-tiers of memory? >> Can a multi-node DRAM-only system take advantage of this proposal? For >> example I have a system with two DRAM nodes running two jobs >> hardwalled to each node. For each

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-06-30 Thread Dave Hansen
On 6/30/20 12:25 PM, Shakeel Butt wrote: >> Since there is never a demotion path out of the set of >> all nodes, the common case would be that there is no demotion path out >> of a reclaim node set. >> >> If that's true, I'd say that the kernel still needs to consider >> migrations even within the

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-06-30 Thread Shakeel Butt
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:51 AM Dave Hansen wrote: > > On 6/30/20 11:36 AM, Shakeel Butt wrote: > >> This is part of a larger patch set. If you want to apply these or > >> play with them, I'd suggest using the tree from here. It includes > >> autonuma-based hot page promotion back to DRAM: >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-06-30 Thread Dave Hansen
On 6/30/20 11:36 AM, Shakeel Butt wrote: >> This is part of a larger patch set. If you want to apply these or >> play with them, I'd suggest using the tree from here. It includes >> autonuma-based hot page promotion back to DRAM: >> >> >>

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-06-30 Thread Shakeel Butt
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:48 PM Dave Hansen wrote: > > I've been sitting on these for too long. Tha main purpose of this > post is to have a public discussion with the other folks who are > interested in this functionalty and converge on a single > implementation. > > This set directly

[RFC][PATCH 0/8] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard

2020-06-29 Thread Dave Hansen
I've been sitting on these for too long. Tha main purpose of this post is to have a public discussion with the other folks who are interested in this functionalty and converge on a single implementation. This set directly incorporates a statictics patch from Yang Shi and also includes one to