Re: [PATCH v8 00/12] mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion

Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-04T15:00:34Z

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 12:36:00PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> * The current tier initialization code always initializes
> each memory-only NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only
> NUMA node may have a high performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM
> device attached via CXL.mem or a DRAM-backed memory-only node on
> a virtual machine) and should be put into a higher tier.
>
> * The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top
> tier. But on a system with HBM (e.g. GPU memory) devices, these
> memory-only HBM NUMA nodes should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes
> with CPUs are better to be placed into the next lower tier.

These things that you identify as problems seem perfectly sensible to me.
Memory which is attached to this CPU has the lowest latency and should
be preferred over more remote memory, no matter its bandwidth.