Re: page migration patchset

Steve Longerbeam wrote:

isn't this already taken care of? read_swap_cache_async() is given
a vma, and passes it to alloc_page_vma(). So if you have earlier
changed the policy for that vma, the new policy will be used
when allocating the page during the swap in.

Steve

What if the policy associated with a vma is the default policy?
Then the page will be swapped in on the node that took the page
fault -- this is >>probably<< correct in most cases, but if a
page is accessed from several nodes, and predominately accessed
from a particular node, it can end up moving due to being swapped
out, and that is probably not what the application intended.

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Ray
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