On 04/21/2015 05:44 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > AUTONUMA > > The Linux kernel's autonuma facility supports migrating both > memory and processes to promote NUMA memory locality. It was > accepted into 3.13 and is available in RHEL 7.0 and SLES 12. > It is enabled by the Kconfig variable CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING. > > This approach uses a kernel thread "knuma_scand" that periodically > marks pages inaccessible. The page-fault handler notes any > mismatches between the NUMA node that the process is running on > and the NUMA node on which the page resides. Minor nit: marking pages inaccessible is done from task_work nowadays, there no longer is a kernel thread. > The result would be that the kernel would allocate only migratable > pages within the CCAD device's memory, and even then only if > memory was otherwise exhausted. Does it make sense to allocate the device's page tables in memory belonging to the device? Is this a necessary thing with some devices? Jerome's HMM comes to mind... -- All rights reversed -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>