While moving tasks between cpusets I noticed some strange behavior. Specifically if the nodes of the destination cpuset are a subset of the nodes of the source cpuset do_migrate_pages() will move pages that are already on a node in the destination cpuset. The reason for this is do_migrate_pages() does not check whether each node in the source nodemask is in the destination nodemask before calling migrate_to_node(). If we simply do this check and skip them when the source is in the destination moving we wont move nodes that dont need to be moved. Adding a little debug printk to migrate_to_node(): Without this change migrating tasks from a cpuset containing nodes 0-7 to a cpuset containing nodes 3-4, we migrate from ALL the nodes even if they are in the both the source and destination nodesets: Migrating 7 to 4 Migrating 6 to 3 Migrating 5 to 4 Migrating 4 to 3 Migrating 1 to 4 Migrating 3 to 4 Migrating 0 to 3 Migrating 2 to 3 With this change we only migrate from nodes that are not in the destination nodesets: Migrating 7 to 4 Migrating 6 to 3 Migrating 5 to 4 Migrating 2 to 3 Migrating 1 to 4 Migrating 0 to 3 Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman