From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mgorman@suse.de
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V3] mm: Move change_prot_numa outside CONFIG_ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:25:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A0E12E.8050105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386268702-30806-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 12/05/2013 01:38 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> change_prot_numa should work even if _PAGE_NUMA != _PAGE_PROTNONE.
> On archs like ppc64 that don't use _PAGE_PROTNONE and also have
> a separate page table outside linux pagetable, we just need to
> make sure that when calling change_prot_numa we flush the
> hardware page table entry so that next page access result in a numa
> fault.
>
> We still need to make sure we use the numa faulting logic only
> when CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set. This implies the migrate-on-fault
> (Lazy migration) via mbind will only work if CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
> is set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-05 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-05 18:38 [PATCH -V3] mm: Move change_prot_numa outside CONFIG_ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-12-05 20:25 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-12-06 11:30 ` Mel Gorman
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