Re: [PATCH 6/8] Add __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> > Yes, less intrusive. But are you using current NUMA stastics on
> > practical system?
> 
> Yes I do. I know users use it too.
> 
> We unfortunately still have enough NUMA locality problems in the kernel
> so that overflowing nodes, causing fallbacks for process memory etc. are not uncommon. 
> If you get that then numastat is very useful to track down what happens.
> 
> In an ideal world with perfect NUMA balancing it wouldn't be needed,
> but we're far from that.
> 
> Also the numactl test suite depends on them.

If so, I have no objection of cource. :)

Thanks.



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