Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 2020 11:25:50 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V6 RESEND 1/3] numa balancing: Migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes |
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:40:54AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:42:32PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > > Now, NUMA balancing can only optimize the page placement among the > > NUMA nodes if the default memory policy is used. Because the memory > > policy specified explicitly should take precedence. But this seems > > too strict in some situations. For example, on a system with 4 NUMA > > nodes, if the memory of an application is bound to the node 0 and 1, > > NUMA balancing can potentially migrate the pages between the node 0 > > and 1 to reduce cross-node accessing without breaking the explicit > > memory binding policy. > > > > Ok, I think this part is ok and while the test case is somewhat > superficial, it at least demonstrated that the NUMA balancing overhead > did not offset any potential benefit > > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Who do we expect to merge this, me through tip/sched/core or akpm ?
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