Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RESEND] xen/gntdev: Grant maps should not be subject to NUMA balancing

From: David Vrabel
Date: Thu Nov 26 2015 - 12:48:37 EST


On 10/11/15 20:10, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Doing so will cause the grant to be unmapped and then, during
> fault handling, the fault to be mistakenly treated as NUMA hint
> fault.
>
> In addition, even if those maps could partcipate in NUMA
> balancing, it wouldn't provide any benefit since we are unable
> to determine physical page's node (even if/when VNUMA is
> implemented).
>
> Marking grant maps' VMAs as VM_IO will exclude them from being
> part of NUMA balancing.

Applied to for-linus-4.4, thanks.

David
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