Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] DAMON based tiered memory management for CXL memory

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

Hi Honggyu,

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:20:47 +0900 Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> wrote:

> There was an RFC IDEA "DAMOS-based Tiered-Memory Management" previously
> posted at [1].
> 
> It says there is no implementation of the demote/promote DAMOS action
> are made.  This patch series is about its implementation for physical
> address space so that this scheme can be applied in system wide level.
> 
> Changes from RFC v4:
> https://lore.kernel.org/20240512175447.75943-1-sj@kernel.org
>   1. Add usage and design documents
>   2. Rename alloc_demote_folio to alloc_migrate_folio
>   3. Add evaluation results with "demotion_enabled" true
>   4. Rebase based on v6.10-rc3

I left comments on the new patches for the documentation.

[...]
> 
> Evaluation Results
> ==================
> 
> All the result values are normalized to DRAM-only execution time because
> the workload cannot be faster than DRAM-only unless the workload hits
> the peak bandwidth but our redis test doesn't go beyond the bandwidth
> limit.
> 
> So the DRAM-only execution time is the ideal result without affected by
> the gap between DRAM and CXL performance difference.  The NUMA node
> environment is as follows.
> 
>   node0 - local DRAM, 512GB with a CPU socket (fast tier)
>   node1 - disabled
>   node2 - CXL DRAM, 96GB, no CPU attached (slow tier)
> 
> The following is the result of generating zipfian distribution to
> redis-server and the numbers are averaged by 50 times of execution.
> 
>   1. YCSB zipfian distribution read only workload
>   memory pressure with cold memory on node0 with 512GB of local DRAM.
>   ====================+================================================+=========
>                       |       cold memory occupied by mmap and memset  |
>                       |   0G  440G  450G  460G  470G  480G  490G  500G |
>   ====================+================================================+=========
>   Execution time normalized to DRAM-only values                        | GEOMEAN
>   --------------------+------------------------------------------------+---------
>   DRAM-only           | 1.00     -     -     -     -     -     -     - | 1.00
>   CXL-only            | 1.19     -     -     -     -     -     -     - | 1.19
>   default             |    -  1.00  1.05  1.08  1.12  1.14  1.18  1.18 | 1.11
>   DAMON tiered        |    -  1.03  1.03  1.03  1.03  1.03  1.07 *1.05 | 1.04
>   DAMON lazy          |    -  1.04  1.03  1.04  1.05  1.06  1.06 *1.06 | 1.05
>   ====================+================================================+=========
>   CXL usage of redis-server in GB                                      | AVERAGE
>   --------------------+------------------------------------------------+---------
>   DRAM-only           |  0.0     -     -     -     -     -     -     - |  0.0
>   CXL-only            | 51.4     -     -     -     -     -     -     - | 51.4
>   default             |    -   0.6  10.6  20.5  30.5  40.5  47.6  50.4 | 28.7
>   DAMON tiered        |    -   0.6   0.5   0.4   0.7   0.8   7.1   5.6 |  2.2
>   DAMON lazy          |    -   0.5   3.0   4.5   5.4   6.4   9.4   9.1 |  5.5
>   ====================+================================================+=========
> 
> Each test result is based on the exeuction environment as follows.

Nit.  s/exeuction/execution/

[...]
> In summary, the evaluation results show that DAMON memory management
> with DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} actions reduces the performance slowdown
> compared to the "default" memory policy from 11% to 3~5% when the system
> runs with high memory pressure on its fast tier DRAM nodes.
> 
> Having these DAMOS_MIGRATE_HOT and DAMOS_MIGRATE_COLD actions can make
> tiered memory systems run more efficiently under high memory pressures.

Thank you very much for continuing this great work.

Other than trivial comments on documentation patches and the above typo, I have
no particular concern on this patchset.  I'm looking forward to the next
version.


Thanks,
SJ
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