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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "ying.huang@intel.com" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
	 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Brice Goglin <brice.goglin@gmail.com>,
	Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces (v2)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 14:12:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <333438929a8680317bdae02da921d1e50fb9b0b3.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAPL-u90Gzrepbsdpc62FGRBYOx1LAVwZWHg1E7UyVD_CmcROw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 01:15 -0700, Wei Xu wrote:
> 
> I am OK with moving back the memory tier nodelist into node/.  When
> there are more memory tier attributes needed, we can then create the
> memory tier subtree and replace the tier nodelist in node/ with
> symlinks.
> 
> So the revised sysfs interfaces are:
> 
> * /sys/devices/system/node/memory_tierN (read-only)
> 
>   where N = 0, 1, 2
> 
>   Format: node_list
> 
> * /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/memory_tier (read/write)
> 
>   where N = 0, 1, ...
> 
>   Format: int or empty

This looks good to me.  Just wonder if having just 1 tier
lower than DRAM is sufficient. We could have wide performance
range for such secondary memories and is one tier sufficient for them?

Tim



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-12 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-12  6:22 RFC: Memory Tiering Kernel Interfaces (v2) Wei Xu
2022-05-12  7:03 ` ying.huang
2022-05-12  7:12   ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-05-12  7:18     ` ying.huang
2022-05-12  7:22     ` Wei Xu
2022-05-12  7:36       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-05-12  8:15         ` Wei Xu
2022-05-12  8:37           ` ying.huang
2022-05-13  2:52             ` ying.huang
2022-05-13  7:00               ` Wei Xu
2022-05-16  1:57                 ` ying.huang
2022-05-12 21:12           ` Tim Chen [this message]
2022-05-12 21:31             ` Wei Xu
2022-05-12 15:00 ` Jonathan Cameron
2022-05-18  7:09   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-18 12:00     ` Jonathan Cameron
2022-05-24  7:36       ` Wei Xu
2022-05-24 13:26         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2022-05-25  5:27           ` Wei Xu
2022-05-25  7:47             ` Alistair Popple
2022-05-25 11:48               ` Jonathan Cameron
2022-05-25 15:32                 ` Wei Xu
2022-05-20  3:06     ` Ying Huang
2022-05-24  7:04       ` Wei Xu
2022-05-24  8:24         ` Ying Huang
2022-05-25  5:32           ` Wei Xu
2022-05-25  9:03             ` Ying Huang
2022-05-25 10:01               ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-05-25 11:36                 ` Mika Penttilä
2022-05-25 15:33                   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-25 17:27                 ` Wei Xu
2022-05-26  9:32                   ` Jonathan Cameron
2022-05-26 20:30                     ` Wei Xu
2022-05-27  9:26                   ` Aneesh Kumar K V
2022-05-25 15:36               ` Wei Xu
2022-05-26  1:09                 ` Ying Huang
2022-05-26  3:53                   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-26  6:54                     ` Ying Huang
2022-05-26  7:08                       ` Wei Xu
2022-05-26  7:39                         ` Ying Huang
2022-05-26 20:55                           ` Wei Xu
2022-05-27  9:10                             ` Jonathan Cameron
2022-05-30  6:54                               ` Ying Huang
2022-05-13  3:25 ` ying.huang
2022-05-13  6:36   ` Wei Xu
2022-05-13  7:04     ` ying.huang
2022-05-13  7:21       ` Wei Xu

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