Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Using hardware counters to determine hot/cold pages

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Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:58 AM Aneesh Kumar K V
> <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> PowerPC architecture (POWER10) supports a Hot/Cold page tracking
>> facility that provides access counter and access affinity details at
>> configurable page size granularity [1]. I have been looking at using
>> this counter in different areas of the kernel such as
>>
>> 1) Page reclaim/demotion
>> 2) THP utilization
>> 3) Page promotion.
>
> Not sure whether you are aware of this patchset:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230208073533.715-1-bharata@xxxxxxx/
>
> ARM64 has SPE which provides similar functionality. So I hope a common
> framework could be provided to hide the hardware details.

I will look at this discussion and see if there are some details I can reuse.

-aneesh




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