> > > > > Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults > > > that are private to a task and those that are shared. This would require > > > that the last task that accessed a page for a hinting fault would be > > > recorded which would increase the size of struct page. Instead this patch > > > approximates private pages by assuming that faults that pass the two-stage > > > filter are private pages and all others are shared. The preferred NUMA > > > node is then selected based on where the maximum number of approximately > > > private faults were measured. > > > > Should we consider only private faults for preferred node? > > I don't think so; its optimal for the task to be nearest most of its pages; > irrespective of whether they be private or shared.
Then the preferred node should have been chosen based on both the private and shared faults and not just private faults. > > > I would think if tasks have shared pages then moving all tasks that share > > the same pages to a node where the share pages are around would be > > preferred. No? > > Well no; not if there's only 5 shared pages but 1024 private pages. Yes, agree, but should we try to give the shared pages some additional weightage? -- Thanks and Regards Srikar Dronamraju -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
