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From:   "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 2/6] memory tiering: add page promotion counter
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Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:53:16 +0800
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        (Yang Shi's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:41:49 -0700")
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Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 6:37 PM Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> To distinguish the number of the memory tiering promoted pages from
>> that of the originally inter-socket NUMA balancing migrated pages.
>> The counter is per-node (count in the target node).  So this can be
>> used to identify promotion imbalance among the NUMA nodes.
>
> I'd like this patch be the very first one in the series. Since we need
> such counters regardless of all the optimizations. And actually I
> think this patch could go with the merged "migration in lieu of
> discard" patchset.

Yes.  This sounds reasonable.  I will change this in the next version.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying