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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Gerald Schaefer" <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Jan Höppner" <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Ways to deprecate /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device ?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:35:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75611c1b4ab44265acff75aa8754d48f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b079fda-4e89-b61b-0aca-a0c4ae834fd8@intel.com>

> It's actually really hard to map a DIMM to a physical address.
> Interleaving can mean that one page actually spans a bunch of DIMMs.

Heh! If NUMA mode is turned off your single page may have cache lines
from *every* DIMM in the system. Even with NUMA turned on the page
will have cache lines from every DIMM on the socket.

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-11 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-10 10:20 Ways to deprecate /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device ? David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 20:00 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-10 20:31   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11  7:20     ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-11  8:09       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11  9:12         ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-11 10:09           ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11 19:24             ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-11 19:35               ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2020-09-11 19:56                 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11 20:09                   ` Luck, Tony
2020-09-11 20:49                     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-14 11:24             ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-14 12:14               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 20:57 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-22 13:56 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-25 14:49   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-25 15:00     ` Greg KH
2020-09-25 15:05       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-25 15:39     ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-25 15:47       ` David Hildenbrand

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