Re: [RFC PATCH 01/31] mm: migrate: Add exchange_pages to exchange two lists of pages.

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 01:12:07PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> But the location of this temp page matters as well because you would like to
> saturate the inter node interface. It needs to be either of the nodes where
> the source or destination page belongs. Any other node would generate two
> internode copy process which is not what you intend here I guess.

That makes no sense.  It should be allocated on the local node of the CPU
performing the copy.  If the CPU is in node A, the destination is in node B
and the source is in node C, then you're doing 4k worth of reads from node C,
4k worth of reads from node B, 4k worth of writes to node C followed by
4k worth of writes to node B.  Eventually the 4k of dirty cachelines on
node A will be written back from cache to the local memory (... or not,
if that page gets reused for some other purpose first).

If you allocate the page on node B or node C, that's an extra 4k of writes
to be sent across the inter-node link.