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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] THP: Use real address for NUMA policy
> Robin,
>
> I tweaked one of our other tests to behave pretty much exactly as I
> - malloc a large array
> - Spawn a specified number of threads
> - Have each thread touch small, evenly spaced chunks of the array (e.g.
> for 128 threads, the array is divided into 128 chunks, and each thread
> touches 1/128th of each chunk, dividing the array into 16,384 pieces)

Forgot to mention that the threads don't touch their chunks of memory
concurrently, i.e. thread 2 has to wait for thread 1 to finish first.
This is important to note, since the pages won't all get stuck on the
first node without this behavior.


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