Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:05:06 -0600 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview |
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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.
> 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.
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