On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Add another layer of fallback policy to make the home node concept > useful from a memory allocation PoV. > > This changes the mpol order to: > > - vma->vm_ops->get_policy [if applicable] > - vma->vm_policy [if applicable] > - task->mempolicy > - tsk_home_node() preferred [NEW] > - default_policy > > Note that the tsk_home_node() policy has Migrate-on-Fault enabled to > facilitate efficient on-demand memory migration. The numa hierachy is already complex. Could we avoid adding another layer by adding a MPOL_HOME_NODE and make that the default? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>