[PATCH -V2 3/5] mm: Move change_prot_numa outside CONFIG_ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE

Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Fri Dec 6 04:52:46 EST 2013


On 12/05/2013 12:20 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:48 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I can move the changes below #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING ? We call
>> change_prot_numa from task_numa_work and queue_pages_range(). The later
>> may be an issue. So doing the below will help ?
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
>
> I will defer to Mel and Rik (should we also CC Andrea ?)

It looks like manual numa binding can also use lazy
page migration, but I am not sure if that can happen
without CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING, or if mbind always uses
MPOL_MF_STRICT...



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