Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] DAMON based tiered memory management for CXL memory

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Fri Jun 14 2024 - 12:39:58 EST


On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:00:02 +0900 Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@xxxxxx> wrote:

> There was an RFC IDEA "DAMOS-based Tiered-Memory Management" previously
> posted at [1].
>
> It says there is no implementation of the demote/promote DAMOS action
> are made. This patch series is about its implementation for physical
> address space so that this scheme can be applied in system wide level.
>
> Changes from v5:
> https://lore.kernel.org/20240613132056.608-1-honggyu.kim@xxxxxx
> 1. Remove new actions in usage document as its for debugfs

Thank you, I confirmed this and gave you my Reviewed-by: tag.

> 2. Apply minor fixes on cover letter

But...

[...]
> 2. YCSB zipfian distribution read only workload (with demotion_enabled true)
> memory pressure with cold memory on node0 with 512GB of local DRAM.
> ====================+================================================+=========
> | cold memory occupied by mmap and memset |
> | 0G 440G 450G 460G 470G 480G 490G 500G |
> ====================+================================================+=========
> Execution time normalized to DRAM-only values | GEOMEAN
> --------------------+------------------------------------------------+---------
> DAMON tiered | - 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.07 1.05 | 1.04
> DAMON lazy | - 1.04 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.06 1.06 | 1.05
> DAMON tiered kswapd | - 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.03 1.02 1.02 1.03 | 1.03
> DAMON lazy kswapd | - 1.04 1.04 1.04 1.03 1.05 1.04 1.05 | 1.04
> ====================+================================================+=========
> CXL usage of redis-server in GB | AVERAGE
> --------------------+------------------------------------------------+---------
> DAMON tiered | - 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.7 0.8 7.1 5.6 | 2.2
> DAMON lazy | - 0.5 3.0 4.5 5.4 6.4 9.4 9.1 | 5.5
> DAMON tiered kswapd | - 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.1 0.8 1.0 | 0.4
> DAMON lazy kswapd | - 4.2 4.6 5.3 1.7 6.8 8.1 5.8 | 5.2
> ====================+================================================+=========
>
> Each test result is based on the exeuction environment as follows.

Seems the typo is not fixed?

I don't want to delay this work for such trivial thing, though. For the patch
series,


Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
SJ

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