mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely...
mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
Note: This two-stage filter was taken directly from the sched/numa patch
"sched, numa, mm: Add the scanning page fault machinery" but is
only a partial extraction. As the end result is not necessarily
recognisable, the signed-offs-by had to be removed. Will be added
back if requested.
While it is desirable that all threads in a process run on its home
node, this is not always possible or necessary. There may be more
threads than exist within the node or the node might over-subscribed
with unrelated processes.
This can cause a situation whereby a page gets migrated off its home
node because the threads clearing pte_numa were running off-node. This
patch uses page->last_nid to build a two-stage filter before pages get
migrated to avoid problems with short or unlikely task<->node
relationships.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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