Re: [PATCH 5/8] Use correct numa policy node for transparenthugepages

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Wed,  2 Mar 2011 16:45:25 -0800
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Pass down the correct node for a transparent hugepage allocation.
> Most callers continue to use the current node, however the hugepaged
> daemon now uses the previous node of the first to be collapsed page
> instead. This ensures that khugepaged does not mess up local memory
> for an existing process which uses local policy.
> 
> The choice of node is somewhat primitive currently: it just
> uses the node of the first page in the pmd range. An alternative
> would be to look at multiple pages and use the most popular
> node. I used the simplest variant for now which should work
> well enough for the case of all pages being on the same node.
> 
> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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