Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: migrate: Add new node demotion strategy

From: Huang, Ying
Date: Sun Nov 07 2021 - 21:12:17 EST


Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 11/4/21 7:51 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>> Let's also try to do it with the existing node_demotion[] data
>>> structure before we go adding more.
>> To avoid cache ping-pong, I guess some kind of per-CPU data structure
>> may be more suitable for interleaving among multiple nodes.
>
> It would probably be better to just find something that's more
> read-heavy. Like, instead of keeping a strict round-robin, just
> randomly select one of the notes to which you can round-robin.
>
> That will scale naturally without having to worry about caching or fancy
> per-cpu data structures.

Yes. That sounds good. And per-CPU data structure is used inside
random API too :-)

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying