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Do you have some idea of how to do > > that? > > If we could avoid instantiating more zones and rather improve existing > mechanisms (PCP), that would be much more preferred IMHO. I'm sure it's not > easy, but that shouldn't stop us from trying ;) Absolutely agreed. Increasing the zone number sounds like a hack to me TBH. It seems like an easier way but it allows more subtle problems later on. E.g. hard to predict per-zone memory consumption and memory reclaim disbalances. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs