Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Reduce NUMA balance caused TLB-shootdowns in a VM

From: John Hubbard
Date: Wed Aug 16 2023 - 14:01:35 EST


On 8/16/23 02:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
But do 32bit architectures even care about NUMA hinting? If not, just ignore them ...

Probably not!

...
So, do you mean that let kernel provide a per-VMA allow/disallow mechanism, and
it's up to the user space to choose between per-VMA and complex way or
global and simpler way?

QEMU could do either way. The question would be if a per-vma settings makes sense for NUMA hinting.

From our experience with compute on GPUs, a per-mm setting would suffice.
No need to go all the way to VMA granularity.


thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA