From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99CF64D0CE4; Thu, 1 Oct 2026 10:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790850903; cv=none; b=MFV37eEWZyBvqwX40qYQEyrALt2ZbdidyW20agsVt/h6SWKKK16rNMThMNiZKfF84BWey1RKV+m+bSP6rrs1QzLKjS7jKBo9px1TXPpv0lxFtHq2aVKCcnchl1ivHxKWTN/I6NMKezVXsn/kOhS/85NyVf7UDXNd9YUXSxB1FEo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790850903; c=relaxed/simple; bh=3BN5c/4XJBQ5yVxxKfSTUKE9X7xv5p1hMiVlkdKUKfo=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=loRJBAGRmPI2FmNBHaes3+Tme8ftoZ1t3YvjkF/6psFUNSkSSokS1ttQChSu0fT5oevb5OQZ9GcDHPOdYYEXJuwdCk4tuQ2JioNsRPAU0P/FhYxHd+VG0ZELaNjyjDZ28fONNotIcePUbMnrsvMQbaXDTLUOPczw/sBT3NOw3VY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=cl+T3eCi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="cl+T3eCi" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5504D1F000FF; Thu, 1 Oct 2026 10:34:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1790850891; bh=cpnAERfwWcpJPCQJOiMYKzskczfBLAmXZOfaiGrPW9s=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=cl+T3eCizG7WiIcmVcH8Ez5A4rlX6y7uy2BLgB7lq20a7ulfYXUm64BsNtPmRr2N0 s7bjBo1ykwKVoa9BSdZDoo2u9ZLi9Fvaa07bk4xm6dPjwvMPSD0rIvkA1TIBMp27F5 +iIyy+4G+tcskX6T38MAAkG49ESye8v7pq/44dmtKP1rvHXDkTucSE+AqAwnXEbaJR oXkNbB92rXh4v+4m/kxJLN6zOrnEoNo7gSIey1ZgVh/GGbNq0LGvlY5brF3GLA+7Y2 8atinXm/CykmIiPli6VB37IBghZQBo2QIDfWdgSVCmHNlFV1YhodM0lQdLmnWVMRLL zOKG92U7/DmNA== Message-ID: <742ced29-d490-4b33-8fff-d6d503c0ee95@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 12:34:37 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] sched/numa: scan read-only file mappings in tiering mode To: Gregory Price , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ljs@kernel.org, liam@infradead.org, vbabka@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, vschneid@redhat.com, kprateek.nayak@amd.com, ziy@nvidia.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, nico.pache@linux.dev, ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, usama.arif@linux.dev, kas@kernel.org, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com, rakie.kim@sk.com, ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, matthew.brost@intel.com, byungchul@sk.com, apopple@nvidia.com, jannh@google.com, pfalcato@suse.de, hannes@cmpxchg.org, shy828301@gmail.com, osalvador@suse.de, raghavendra.kt@amd.com, stable@vger.kernel.org References: <20260930112206.205083-1-gourry@gourry.net> <20260930112206.205083-4-gourry@gourry.net> From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=david@kernel.org; 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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/30/26 13:22, Gregory Price wrote: > From: "Gregory Price (Meta)" > > Commit 4591ce4f2d22 ("sched/numa: Do not trap hinting faults for > shared libraries") excludes file-backed read-only VMAs from NUMA > hint faulting to prevent east-west placement bouncing. > > This filter hides hot file folios on slow memory from promotion. > > Scan those VMAs when tiering is enabled, but make their scans promotion > only to retain the existing restriction. Keep the historical VMA > predicate unchanged for backport-ability. > > Decide the walk type for each VMA from the balancing-mode snapshot > taken in task_numa_work(). A VMA gets a placement scan only when normal > balancing is enabled and it is not a read-only file mapping. Otherwise > the walk is promotion-only, and without tiering the VMA is skipped as > before. > > On a host with 768 GB of DRAM and 256 GB of CXL memory running two > database services using ~430GB each, 169 MB of their shared 185 MB > main binary accumulated on CXL and was permanently stuck there. > > With the change, the binary tier residency tracks its runtime hotness. > > Fixes: c574bbe91703 ("NUMA balancing: optimize page placement for memory tiering system") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Assisted-by: LLM > Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) > --- Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) -- Cheers, David