Re: [PATCH 10/10] mm/migrate: new zone_reclaim_mode to enable reclaim migration

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue Mar 09 2021 - 16:54:12 EST


On 3/8/21 4:24 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
>> Once this is enabled page demotion may move data to a NUMA node
>> that does not fall into the cpuset of the allocating process.
>> This could be construed to violate the guarantees of cpusets.
>> However, since this is an opt-in mechanism, the assumption is
>> that anyone enabling it is content to relax the guarantees.
> I think we'd better have the cpuset violation paragraph along with new
> zone reclaim mode text so that the users are aware of the potential
> violation. I don't think commit log is the to-go place for any plain
> users.
>

Agreed. I'll add it to the Documentation/.