Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Implement numa node notifier

[Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>]

On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 08:03:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Why is this a problem?  Is there some bug?  Are these notifications so
> frequent that there are significant inefficiencies here?

hi Andrew,

There is no bug, it is just suboptimal.

That the numa node state changes were tied to the memory notifier was
something hacky and that have us bugged for a while now.
Were mean to tidy that up but just never got around it.

Actually, first time I brought that up was when I reviewed the first implementation
of memory demotion (~ca 3-4 years ago now?).

With the addition of yet another consumer (auto-weitght mempolicy) that was only
interested in get notified on numa node changes, it became more clear that we
really want to split those up.

> Further down-thread, Gregory tells us that Dan's patch "seems to fix
> the underlying problem", but nobody (including Dan) told us about any
> "problem" at all.

That is related to auto-weight mempolicy patches, not to this one.
I _think_ Gregory means that I take it in as part of the series.

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs