Re: [External Mail] [RFC PATCH] mm/mempolicy: Weighted interleave auto-tuning

["Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>]

Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 01:57:58PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> Hi, Joshua,
>> 
>> Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:19:20 +0900 Hyeonggon Yoo <hyeonggon.yoo@sk.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2024-12-11 06:54 AM, Joshua Hahn wrote:
>>

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>
>> >
>> > Regardless of what implementation makes sense, I can re-write the
>> > description so that there is no ambiguity when it comes to the
>> > expected behavior of the code. Thank you for pointing this out!
>> 
>> I don't think that it's a good idea to override the user supplied
>> configuration values.  User configurations always have higher priority
>> than system default configurations.  IIUC, this is the general rule of
>> Linux kernel user space interface.
>> 
>
> We discussed this and decided it was confusing no matter what we did.
>
> If new data comes in (CDAT data from a hotplug event), then the weights
> are now wrong for the new global state - regardless of whether the user
> set a weight manually or not.  This also allowed us to simplify the
> implementation a bit.
>
> But if generally we need to preserve user settings, then I think the
> best we can do to provide a sane system is ignore the user setting when
> re-weighting on a hotplug event.
>
> e.g. user has not set a value
>
> default_values [5,2,-] <- 1 node not set, expected to be hotplugged
> user_values    [-,-,-] <- user has not set values
> effective      [5,2,-]
>
> hotplug event
> default_values [2,1,1] - reweight has occurred
> user_values    [-,-,-]
> effective      [2,1,1]
>
> e.g. user has set a value
>
> default_values [5,2,-] <- 1 node not set, expected to be hotplugged
> user_values    [4,-,-] <- user has only set one value
> effective      [4,2,-]
>
> hotplug event
> default_values [2,1,1] - reweight has occurred
> user_values    [4,-,-]
> effective      [4,1,1]

Another choice is that if the user set a value, he/she set all values
effectively.  Even if he/she doesn't set the other values, he/she thinks
that the other values are good, and more importantly, the ratio is good.
If so,

default_values [5,2,-] <- 1 node not set, expected to be hotplugged
user_values    [4,2,0] <- user has only set one value, not populated nodes have value 0
effective      [4,2,0]

hotplug event
default_values [2,1,1] - reweight has occurred
user_values    [4,2,0]
effective      [4,2,0]

In this way, 0 becomes a valid value too.

What do you think about this?

> So default values get updated, but user values get left alone.
>
> If that's sane we'll fix it up.

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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying