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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Using hardware counters to determine hot/cold pages
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:15:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a619g1d8.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHbLzkrpV61m6-qwWrPheK-VXhsjEobPBWeuMYs6wkFPHPoa2A@mail.gmail.com>

Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:58 AM Aneesh Kumar K V
> <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> PowerPC architecture (POWER10) supports a Hot/Cold page tracking
>> facility that provides access counter and access affinity details at
>> configurable page size granularity [1]. I have been looking at using
>> this counter in different areas of the kernel such as
>>
>> 1) Page reclaim/demotion
>> 2) THP utilization
>> 3) Page promotion.
>
> Not sure whether you are aware of this patchset:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230208073533.715-1-bharata@amd.com/
>
> ARM64 has SPE which provides similar functionality. So I hope a common
> framework could be provided to hide the hardware details.

I will look at this discussion and see if there are some details I can reuse.

-aneesh


      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-19 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-17 11:58 [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Using hardware counters to determine hot/cold pages Aneesh Kumar K V
2023-02-17 16:42 ` SeongJae Park
2023-02-19 14:29   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2023-02-19 20:31     ` SeongJae Park
2023-02-17 16:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-19 14:43   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2023-02-17 22:00 ` Yang Shi
2023-02-19 14:45   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]

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