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Moving physical pages from user space

Moving physical pages from user space

Posted Sep 19, 2023 8:59 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
Parent article: Moving physical pages from user space

Given that the original motivation is

> For a process executing on a given node, memory attached to that same node will be faster than memory on other nodes, so the placement of memory matters.

But the proposed implementation is trying to

> move pages between memory types without the need for an awareness of which processes are using those pages.

I seriously doubt success will be achieved.

If user-space detects a fast tier is under utilised but does not want to analyse process by process which one would benefit from a relocation, surely an API prompting the kernel to fill the fast tier, looking itself for the processes that would benefit most would be more appropriate ?


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