> > I analyze Lee Schermerhorn's migrate memory on cpu migration patches > > (http://free.linux.hp.com/~lts/Patches/PageMigration/). I think that > Lee > > Schermerhorn add similar functionalities to the kernel. He called the > > "affinity-on-next-touch" functionality "migrate_on_fault" and uses in > his > > patches the normal NUMA memory policies. Therefore, his solution fits > better > > to the Linux kernel. I tested his patches with our test applications > and got > > nearly the same performance results. > > That's great to know. > > I didn't think he had a per process setting though, did he? He enables the support of migration-on-fault via cpusets (echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/migrate_on_fault). Afterwards, every process could initiate migration-on-fault via mbind(..., MPOL_MF_MOVE|MPOL_MF_LAZY). > > I found only patches for the kernel 2.6.25-rc2-mm1. Does someone > develop > > these patches further? > > Not to much knowledge. Maybe Lee will pick them up again now that there > are more use cases. > > If he doesn't have time maybe you could update them? We are planning to work in this area. I think that I could update these patches. At least, I am able to support Lee. Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
