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SubjectRe: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview
Robin Holt wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:29:45PM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote:
>
>>which is what you are asking for, I think. The library's job
>>(in addition to suspending all of the processes in the list for
>>the duration of the migration operation, plus do some other things
>>that are specific to sn2 hardware) would be to examine the
>
>
> You probably want the batch scheduler to do the suspend/resume as it
> may be parking part of the job on nodes that have memory but running
> processes of a different job while moving a job out of the way for a
> big-mem app that wants to run on one of this jobs nodes.
>

That works as well, and if we keep the majority of the work on
deciding who to migrate where and what to do when in a user space
library rather than in the kernel, then we have a lot more flexibility
in, for example who suspends/resumes the jobs to be migrated.

>
>>do memory placement by first touch, during initialization. This is,
>>in part, because most of our codes originate on non-NUMA systems,
>>and we've typically done very just what is necessary to make them
>
>
> Software Vendors tend to be very reluctant to do things for a single
> architecture unless there are clear wins.
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>


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