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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <960F3918-7D2C-463C-A911-9B62CD7E5D83@nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/16/19 8:33 AM, Zi Yan wrote: >> We have a reasonable argument that demotion is better than >> swapping. So, we could say that even if a VMA has a strict NUMA >> policy, demoting pages mapped there pages still beats swapping >> them or tossing the page cache. It's doing them a favor to >> demote them. > I just wonder whether page migration is always better than > swapping, since SSD write throughput keeps improving but page > migration throughput is still low. For example, my machine has a > SSD with 2GB/s writing throughput but the throughput of 4KB page > migration is less than 1GB/s, why do we want to use page migration > for demotion instead of swapping? Just because we observe that page migration apparently has lower throughput today doesn't mean that we should consider it a dead end.