From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: support MIGRATE_DISCARD
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:31:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120906053112.GA16231@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120905105611.GI11266@suse.de>
Hi Mel,
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:56:11AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:11:13PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > This patch introudes MIGRATE_DISCARD mode in migration.
> > It drops *clean cache pages* instead of migration so that
> > migration latency could be reduced by avoiding (memcpy + page remapping).
> > It's useful for CMA because latency of migration is very important rather
> > than eviction of background processes's workingset. In addition, it needs
> > less free pages for migration targets so it could avoid memory reclaiming
> > to get free pages, which is another factor increase latency.
> >
>
> Bah, this was released while I was reviewing the older version. I did
> not read this one as closely but I see the enum problems have gone away
> at least. I'd still prefer if CMA had an additional helper to discard
> some pages with shrink_page_list() and migrate the remaining pages with
> migrate_pages(). That would remove the need to add a MIGRATE_DISCARD
> migrate mode at all.
I am not convinced with your point. What's the benefit on separating
reclaim and migration? For just removing MIGRATE_DISCARD mode?
I don't think it's not bad because my implementation is very simple(maybe
it's much simpler than separating reclaim and migration) and
could be used by others like memory-hotplug in future.
If you're not strong against with me, I would like to insist on my implementation.
>
> --
> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs
>
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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: support MIGRATE_DISCARD
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:31:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120906053112.GA16231@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120905105611.GI11266@suse.de>
Hi Mel,
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:56:11AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:11:13PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > This patch introudes MIGRATE_DISCARD mode in migration.
> > It drops *clean cache pages* instead of migration so that
> > migration latency could be reduced by avoiding (memcpy + page remapping).
> > It's useful for CMA because latency of migration is very important rather
> > than eviction of background processes's workingset. In addition, it needs
> > less free pages for migration targets so it could avoid memory reclaiming
> > to get free pages, which is another factor increase latency.
> >
>
> Bah, this was released while I was reviewing the older version. I did
> not read this one as closely but I see the enum problems have gone away
> at least. I'd still prefer if CMA had an additional helper to discard
> some pages with shrink_page_list() and migrate the remaining pages with
> migrate_pages(). That would remove the need to add a MIGRATE_DISCARD
> migrate mode at all.
I am not convinced with your point. What's the benefit on separating
reclaim and migration? For just removing MIGRATE_DISCARD mode?
I don't think it's not bad because my implementation is very simple(maybe
it's much simpler than separating reclaim and migration) and
could be used by others like memory-hotplug in future.
If you're not strong against with me, I would like to insist on my implementation.
>
> --
> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
> the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM,
> see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
> Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 8:11 [PATCH 1/2] mm: change enum migrate_mode with bitwise type Minchan Kim
2012-09-05 8:11 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-05 8:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: support MIGRATE_DISCARD Minchan Kim
2012-09-05 8:11 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-05 10:56 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-05 10:56 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-06 5:31 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2012-09-06 5:31 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-06 8:29 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-06 8:29 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-06 9:03 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-06 9:03 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-07 0:57 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 0:57 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 2:26 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-07 2:26 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-07 8:10 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-07 8:10 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-07 2:24 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-07 2:24 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-07 5:57 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 5:57 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 7:31 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 7:31 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 8:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-07 8:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-07 8:57 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 8:57 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-09-07 8:21 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-07 8:21 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-07 9:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-07 9:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-08 0:16 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-08 0:16 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-05 12:43 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-05 12:43 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-12-21 13:04 ` lihanhui
2012-12-21 13:04 ` lihanhui
2012-09-05 12:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: change enum migrate_mode with bitwise type Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-05 12:41 ` Michal Nazarewicz
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