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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: demotion: Set demotion list differently
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On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 14:18 +0530, Jagdish Gediya wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 03:09:42PM +0800, ying.huang@intel.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:52 +0530, Jagdish Gediya wrote:
> > > Sharing used_targets between multiple nodes in a single
> > > pass limits some of the opportunities for demotion target
> > > sharing.
> > >
> > > Don't share the used targets between multiple nodes in a
> > > single pass, instead accumulate all the used targets in
> > > source nodes shared by all pass, and reset 'used_targets'
> > > to source nodes while finding demotion targets for any new
> > > node.
> > >
> > > This results into some more opportunities to share demotion
> > > targets between multiple source nodes, e.g. with below NUMA
> > > topology, where node 0 & 1 are cpu + dram nodes, node 2 & 3
> > > are equally slower memory only nodes, and node 4 is slowest
> > > memory only node,
> > >
> > > available: 5 nodes (0-4)
> > > node 0 cpus: 0 1
> > > node 0 size: n MB
> > > node 0 free: n MB
> > > node 1 cpus: 2 3
> > > node 1 size: n MB
> > > node 1 free: n MB
> > > node 2 cpus:
> > > node 2 size: n MB
> > > node 2 free: n MB
> > > node 3 cpus:
> > > node 3 size: n MB
> > > node 3 free: n MB
> > > node 4 cpus:
> > > node 4 size: n MB
> > > node 4 free: n MB
> > > node distances:
> > > node 0 1 2 3 4
> > >   0: 10 20 40 40 80
> > >   1: 20 10 40 40 80
> > >   2: 40 40 10 40 80
> > >   3: 40 40 40 10 80
> > >   4: 80 80 80 80 10
> > >
> > > The existing implementation gives below demotion targets,
> > >
> > > node demotion_target
> > >  0 3, 2
> > >  1 4
> > >  2 X
> > >  3 X
> > >  4 X
> > >
> > > With this patch applied, below are the demotion targets,
> > >
> > > node demotion_target
> > >  0 3, 2
> > >  1 3, 2
> > >  2 4
> > >  3 4
> > >  4 X
> > >
> > > e.g. with below NUMA topology, where node 0, 1 & 2 are
> > > cpu + dram nodes and node 3 is slow memory node,
> > >
> > > available: 4 nodes (0-3)
> > > node 0 cpus: 0 1
> > > node 0 size: n MB
> > > node 0 free: n MB
> > > node 1 cpus: 2 3
> > > node 1 size: n MB
> > > node 1 free: n MB
> > > node 2 cpus: 4 5
> > > node 2 size: n MB
> > > node 2 free: n MB
> > > node 3 cpus:
> > > node 3 size: n MB
> > > node 3 free: n MB
> > > node distances:
> > > node 0 1 2 3
> > >   0: 10 20 20 40
> > >   1: 20 10 20 40
> > >   2: 20 20 10 40
> > >   3: 40 40 40 10
> > >
> > > The existing implementation gives below demotion targets,
> > >
> > > node demotion_target
> > >  0 3
> > >  1 X
> > >  2 X
> > >  3 X
> > >
> > > With this patch applied, below are the demotion targets,
> > >
> > > node demotion_target
> > >  0 3
> > >  1 3
> > >  2 3
> > >  3 X
> > >
> >
> > With the [PATCH v1], you have describe the demotion order changes for
> > the following system, I guess there's no change with [PATCH v2]?
>
> Yes, there is no change with v2.
>
> > With below NUMA topology, where node 0 & 2 are cpu + dram
> > nodes and node 1 & 3 are slow memory nodes,
> >
> > available: 4 nodes (0-3)
> > node 0 cpus: 0 1
> > node 0 size: n MB
> > node 0 free: n MB
> > node 1 cpus:
> > node 1 size: n MB
> > node 1 free: n MB
> > node 2 cpus: 2 3
> > node 2 size: n MB
> > node 2 free: n MB
> > node 3 cpus:
> > node 3 size: n MB
> > node 3 free: n MB
> > node distances:
> > node 0 1 2 3
> >   0: 10 40 20 80
> >   1: 40 10 80 80
> >   2: 20 80 10 40
> >   3: 80 80 40 10
> >
> > And, what is the demotion order for the following system with [PATCH
> > v2]?
> >
> > Node 0 & 2 are cpu + dram nodes and node 1 are slow
> > memory node near node 0,
> >
> > available: 3 nodes (0-2)
> > node 0 cpus: 0 1
> > node 0 size: n MB
> > node 0 free: n MB
> > node 1 cpus:
> > node 1 size: n MB
> > node 1 free: n MB
> > node 2 cpus: 2 3
> > node 2 size: n MB
> > node 2 free: n MB
> > node distances:
> > node 0 1 2
> >   0: 10 40 20
> >   1: 40 10 80
> >   2: 20 80 10
>
> node 1 is demotion target for both node 0 and node 2 with this patch.
> node 1 is demotion target only for node 0 with existing implementation,
> however if node 1 is near to node 2 instead of node 0, still existing
> implementation will give node 1 as demotion target only for node 0 which
> is not the correct behavior.
>
> for both the scenario, with this patch applied, node 1 will be demotion
> target for both 0 and 2.
>

Sounds good! Thanks.

Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>

> > Best Regards,
> > Huang, Ying
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> >
> Best regards,
> Jagdish


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