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>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Michal Hocko
>Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:10 PM
>To: Du, Fan <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected]; Wu, Fengguang <[email protected]>;
>Williams, Dan J <[email protected]>; Hansen, Dave
><[email protected]>; [email protected]; Huang, Ying
><[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, page_alloc: Introduce
>ZONELIST_FALLBACK_SAME_TYPE fallback list
>
>On Thu 25-04-19 07:55:58, Du, Fan wrote:
>> >> PMEM is good for frequently read accessed page, e.g. page cache(implicit
>> >> page
>> >> request), or user space data base (explicit page request)
>> >> For now this patch create GFP_SAME_NODE_TYPE for such cases,
>additional
>> >> Implementation will be followed up.
>> >
>> >Then simply configure that NUMA node as movable and you get these
>> >allocations for any movable allocation. I am not really convinced a new
>> >gfp flag is really justified.
>>
>> Case 1: frequently write and/or read accessed page deserved to DRAM
>
>NUMA balancing
Sorry, I mean page cache case here.
Numa balancing works for pages mapped in pagetable style.
>> Case 2: frequently read accessed page deserved to PMEM
>
>memory reclaim to move those pages to a more distant node (e.g. a PMEM).
>
>Btw. none of the above is a static thing you would easily know at the
>allocation time.
>
>Please spare some time reading surrounding discussions - e.g.
>http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
>libaba.com
Thanks for the point.
>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs
