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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] sched/numa: Fault count based NUMA hint fault
 latency
In-Reply-To: <20240327160237.2355-2-bharata@amd.com> (Bharata B. Rao's message
	of "Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:32:36 +0530")
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:56:24 +0800
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Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> writes:

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> @@ -1750,25 +1753,20 @@ static bool pgdat_free_space_enough(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * For memory tiering mode, when page tables are scanned, the scan
> - * time will be recorded in struct page in addition to make page
> - * PROT_NONE for slow memory page.  So when the page is accessed, in
> - * hint page fault handler, the hint page fault latency is calculated
> - * via,
> + * For memory tiering mode, when page tables are scanned, the current
> + * hint fault count will be recorded in struct page in addition to
> + * make page PROT_NONE for slow memory page.  So when the page is
> + * accessed, in hint page fault handler, the hint page fault latency is
> + * calculated via,
>   *
> - *	hint page fault latency = hint page fault time - scan time
> + * hint page fault latency = current hint fault count - fault count at scan time
>   *
>   * The smaller the hint page fault latency, the higher the possibility
>   * for the page to be hot.
>   */
> -static int numa_hint_fault_latency(struct folio *folio)
> +static inline int numa_hint_fault_latency(struct folio *folio, int count)
>  {
> -	int last_time, time;
> -
> -	time = jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies);
> -	last_time = folio_xchg_access_time(folio, time);
> -
> -	return (time - last_time) & PAGE_ACCESS_TIME_MASK;
> +	return count - folio_xchg_fault_count(folio, count);
>  }

I found count is task->mm->hint_faults.  That is a process wide
counting.  How do you connect the hotness of a folio with the count of
hint page fault in the process?  How do you compare the hotness of
folios among different processes?

>  /*
> @@ -1794,35 +1792,6 @@ static bool numa_promotion_rate_limit(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
>  	return false;
>  }
>

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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying