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

[Yan Zhao]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:00:36AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> 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.
> 
After an offline internal discussion, we think a per-mm setting is also
enough for device passthrough in VMs.

BTW, if we want a per-VMA flag, compared to VM_NO_NUMA_BALANCING, do you
think it's of any value to providing a flag like VM_MAYDMA?
Auto NUMA balancing or other components can decide how to use it by
themselves.