Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

Andi Kleen
2005-02-16T00:44:01Z

> SGI had code in IRIX to do that kind of thing (automatically move a page to
> the node where most of the references were coming from). Never worked very
> well, I have been told. So our bias is away from such "automatic" page
> migration schemes and toward "manual" methods driven either by a user
> command or a user-level program such as a batch scheduler.

I tried something similar too (scheduling a task to the node with most of
its memory) and it also never worked very well.

-Andi