| Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2012 13:58:13 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/31] sched, numa, mm/mpol: Make mempolicy home-node aware |
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 02:16:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Add another layer of fallback policy to make the home node concept > useful from a memory allocation PoV. > > This changes the mpol order to: > > - vma->vm_ops->get_policy [if applicable] > - vma->vm_policy [if applicable] > - task->mempolicy > - tsk_home_node() preferred [NEW] > - default_policy > > Note that the tsk_home_node() policy has Migrate-on-Fault enabled to > facilitate efficient on-demand memory migration. >
Makes sense and it looks like a VMA policy, if set, will still override the home_node policy as you'd expect. At some point this may need to cope with node hot-remove. Also, at some point this must be dealing with the case where mbind() is called but the home_node is not in the nodemask. Does that happen somewhere else in the series? (maybe I'll see it later)
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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