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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/8] Use correct numa policy node for transparent hugepages
    On Wed,  2 Mar 2011 16:45:25 -0800
    Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

    > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    >
    > Pass down the correct node for a transparent hugepage allocation.
    > Most callers continue to use the current node, however the hugepaged
    > daemon now uses the previous node of the first to be collapsed page
    > instead. This ensures that khugepaged does not mess up local memory
    > for an existing process which uses local policy.
    >
    > The choice of node is somewhat primitive currently: it just
    > uses the node of the first page in the pmd range. An alternative
    > would be to look at multiple pages and use the most popular
    > node. I used the simplest variant for now which should work
    > well enough for the case of all pages being on the same node.
    >
    > Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

    Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>



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