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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,  <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	<linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>,  <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	<dan.j.williams@intel.com>,  <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	<hasanalmaruf@fb.com>,  <haowang3@fb.com>,
	 <gregory.price@memverge.com>, <tj@kernel.org>,
	 <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>,  <fvdl@google.com>,
	<john@jagalactic.com>,  <emirakhur@micron.com>,
	<vtavarespetr@micron.com>,  <Ravis.OpenSrc@micron.com>,
	<Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,  <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Node migration between memory tiers
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:51:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzpt2ft5.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1db561a9-6984-418d-9305-a2a5ece93696@micron.com> (Srinivasulu Thanneeru's message of "Tue, 5 Dec 2023 01:26:07 +0530")

Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com> writes:

> On 12/4/2023 9:13 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
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>> On Fri 01-12-23 03:34:20, sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com wrote:
>>> From: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com>
>>>
>>> The memory tiers feature allows nodes with similar memory types
>>> or performance characteristics to be grouped together in a
>>> memory tier. However, there is currently no provision for
>>> moving a node from one tier to another on demand.
>> Could you expand on why this is really needed/necessary? What is the
>> actual usecase?
>
> Hi Michal Hock,
>
> Following two use-cases we have observed.
> 1. It is not accurate to group similar memory types in the same tier,
>    because even similar memory types may have different speed grades.
>
> 2. Some systems boots up with CXL devices and DRAM on the same
> memory-tier, we need a way to move the CXL nodes to the correct tier
> from the user space.

I guess that you need to move all NUMA nodes with same performance
metrics together?  If so, That is why we previously proposed to place
the knob in "memory_type".

--
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-05  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-30 22:04 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Node migration between memory tiers sthanneeru.opensrc
2023-11-30 22:04 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] base/node: Add sysfs for adistance_offset sthanneeru.opensrc
2023-11-30 22:04 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] memory tier: Support node migration between tiers sthanneeru.opensrc
2023-12-04 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Node migration between memory tiers Michal Hocko
2023-12-04 19:56   ` [EXT] " Srinivasulu Thanneeru
2023-12-05  8:35     ` Michal Hocko
2023-12-05  8:42       ` Srinivasulu Thanneeru
2023-12-05  8:51         ` Michal Hocko
2023-12-05  9:02           ` Srinivasulu Thanneeru
2023-12-05  9:09             ` Michal Hocko
2023-12-05  9:19           ` Ravi Jonnalagadda
2023-12-06 15:22             ` Michal Hocko
2023-12-05  8:51     ` Huang, Ying [this message]
2023-12-05  9:12     ` [EXT] " Huang, Ying

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