Re: [RFC] put page to pcp->lists[] tail if it is not on the same node

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On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:12:51PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 04:33:18PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>> >Pages from remote nodes are not placed on local lists. Even in the slab
>> >context, such objects are placed on alien caches which have special
>> >handling.
>> >
>> 
>> Hmm... I am not sure get your point correctly.
>> 
>
>The point is that one list should not contain a mix of pages belonging to
>different nodes or zones or it'll result in unexpected behaviour. If you
>are just shuffling the ordering of pages in the list, it needs justification
>as to why that makes sense.
>

Yep, you are right :-)

>-- 
>Mel Gorman
>SUSE Labs

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Wei Yang
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