Re: [PATCH 17/19] mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Nov 07 2012 - 06:54:17 EST


On 11/06/2012 04:14 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
This is the dumbest possible policy that still does something of note.
When a pte_numa is faulted, it is moved immediately. Any replacement
policy must at least do better than this and in all likelihood this
policy regresses normal workloads.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

I expect this code to be replaced with a smarter policy.
However, it may be appropriate to merge this into -mm,
and then have the smarter policy implemented on top.

In case we go that route ...

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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