Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/3] Rebase DAMON_RECALIM for NUMA system

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 04:53:14 EST


Hello Jonghyeon,

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:26:08 +0900 Jonghyeon Kim <tome01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Current DAMON_RECALIM is not compatible with the NUMA memory system. To
> proactively reclaim memory, DAMON_RECLAIM kernel thread(kdamond) has to wake up
> before kswapd does reclaim memory. However, the current watermark for proactive
> reclamation is based on entire system free memory. So, though the one memory
> node is fully used, kdamond is not waked up.
>
> These patches clarify watermarks of DAMOS and enable monitoring per NUMA node
> proactive reclamation on DAMON_RECLAIM.

The high level concept of this patchset looks good to me. Nevertheless, maybe
there is some rooms for improvement. I left some comments on patches.


Thanks,
SJ

>
> Jonghyeon Kim (3):
> mm/damon: Rebase damos watermarks for NUMA systems
> mm/damon/core: Add damon_start_one()
> mm/damon/reclaim: Add per NUMA node proactive reclamation by
> DAMON_RECLAIM.
>
> include/linux/damon.h | 3 +
> mm/damon/core.c | 39 +++++++++--
> mm/damon/reclaim.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 3 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1