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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Memory access profiler(IBS) driven NUMA balancing
On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 01:05:28PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:

> - Perf uses IBS and we are using the same IBS for access profiling here.
> There needs to be a proper way to make the use mutually exclusive.

No, IFF this lives it needs to use in-kernel perf.

> - Is tying this up with NUMA balancing a reasonable approach or
> should we look at a completely new approach?

Is it giving sufficient win to be worth it, afaict it doesn't come even
close to justifying it.

> - Hardware provided access information could be very useful for driving
> hot page promotion in tiered memory systems. Need to check if this
> requires different tuning/heuristics apart from what NUMA balancing
> already does.

I think Huang Ying looked at that from the Intel POV and I think the
conclusion was that it doesn't really work out. What you need is
frequency information, but the PMU doesn't really give you that. You
need to process a *ton* of PMU data in-kernel.


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