On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:46 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > I've also stated several times that forceful migration in the context of > > numa balancing must go. > > I am not convinced about this part either way. > > I do not see how a migration numa thread (which could potentially > use idle cpu time) will be any worse than migrate on fault, which > will always take away time from the userspace process. Any NUMA stuff is long term, it really shouldn't matter on the timescale of a few jiffies. NUMA placement should also not over-ride fairness, esp. not by 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/ . Don't email: <a href