From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEC0E8D0017 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:38:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:37:47 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/8] numa - Migrate-on-Fault Message-ID: <20101115143747.GD6809@random.random> References: <20101111194450.12535.12611.sendpatchset@zaphod.localdomain> <20101114152440.E02E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101115142122.GK7269@basil.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101115142122.GK7269@basil.fritz.box> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Lameter , KOSAKI Motohiro , Lee Schermerhorn , linux-numa@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , Hugh Dickins , David Rientjes , Avi Kivity , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:21:22PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > - Virtualization with KVM (I think it's very promising for that) > Basically this allows to keep guests local on nodes with their > own NUMA policy without having to statically bind them. Confirm, KVM virtualization needs automatic migration (we need the cpu to follow memory in a smart way too), hard bindings are not ok, like hugetlbfs is not ok as VM are moved across nodes, swapped, merged with ksm and things must work out automatically without admin intervention. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org