RE: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, page_alloc: Introduce ZONELIST_FALLBACK_SAME_TYPE fallback list

[Du, Fan]

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>Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, page_alloc: Introduce
>ZONELIST_FALLBACK_SAME_TYPE fallback list
>
>On Thu 25-04-19 08:20:28, Du, Fan wrote:
>>
>>
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><fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>;
>> >Williams, Dan J <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>; Hansen, Dave
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>> >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.
>
>I would still expect that a remote PMEM node access latency is
>smaller/comparable to the real storage so a promoting part is not that
>important for the unmapped pagecache. Maybe I am wrong here but that
>really begs for some experiments before we start adding special casing.

I understand your concern :), please refer to following summary from 3rd party.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.05714.pdf


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>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs