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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	linux-numa@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	andi@firstfloor.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/8] numa - Migrate-on-Fault
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:54:01 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116134644.BF21.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011150809030.19175@router.home>

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> > Nice!
> 
> Lets not get overenthused. There has been no conclusive proof that the
> overhead introduced by automatic migration schemes is consistently less
> than the benefit obtained by moving the data. Quite to the contrary. We
> have over a decades worth of research and attempts on this issue and there
> was no general improvement to be had that way.
> 
> The reason that the manual placement interfaces exist is because there was
> no generally beneficial migration scheme available. The manual interfaces
> allow the writing of various automatic migrations schemes in user space.
> 
> If wecan come up with something that is an improvement then lets go
> this way but I am skeptical.

Ah, I thought this series only has manua migration (i.e. MPOL_MF_LAZY),
but it also has automatic migration if a page is not mapped. So my standpoint
is, manual lazy migration has certinally usecase. but I have no opinion against
automatic one.




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20101111194450.12535.12611.sendpatchset@zaphod.localdomain>
     [not found] ` <20101114152440.E02E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011150809030.19175@router.home>
2010-11-15 14:21     ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 14:37       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-11-16  4:54     ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2010-11-17 14:45       ` Lee Schermerhorn

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