Re: [RFC PATCH 00/25] Accelerate page migration and use memcg for PMEM management

2019-04-05 Thread Zi Yan
>> Infrequent page list update problem >> >> >> Current page lists are updated by calling shrink_list() when memory pressure >> comes, which might not be frequent enough to keep track of hot and cold >> pages. >> Because all pages are on active lists at the first time shrink_list() is >>

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/25] Accelerate page migration and use memcg for PMEM management

2019-04-04 Thread Yang Shi
On 4/3/19 7:00 PM, Zi Yan wrote: From: Zi Yan Thanks to Dave Hansen's patches, which make PMEM as part of memory as NUMA nodes. How to use PMEM along with normal DRAM remains an open problem. There are several patchsets posted on the mailing list, proposing to use page migration to move

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/25] Accelerate page migration and use memcg for PMEM management

2019-04-04 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 03-04-19 19:00:21, Zi Yan wrote: > From: Zi Yan > > Thanks to Dave Hansen's patches, which make PMEM as part of memory as NUMA > nodes. > How to use PMEM along with normal DRAM remains an open problem. There are > several patchsets posted on the mailing list, proposing to use page

[RFC PATCH 00/25] Accelerate page migration and use memcg for PMEM management

2019-04-03 Thread Zi Yan
From: Zi Yan Thanks to Dave Hansen's patches, which make PMEM as part of memory as NUMA nodes. How to use PMEM along with normal DRAM remains an open problem. There are several patchsets posted on the mailing list, proposing to use page migration to move pages between PMEM and DRAM using Linux